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Speaker 1: Native Land Pod is a production of iHeart Radio in

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, Welcome home everybody. This is Andrew Gillim.

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Speaker 1: I'm here with my beautiful hot hot literally hot co host.

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Speaker 1: You are.

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Speaker 3: I know, we host.

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Speaker 4: We introduce you, Tiviny Crime and who are you?

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Speaker 5: My name is Angela Rye. I'm live from the set

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Speaker 5: and right woll.

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Speaker 1: Technically we're just off the set.

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Speaker 6: The Will Packer Amphitheater. We don't even have Will Packer

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Speaker 6: with us today.

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Speaker 7: I'm in.

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Speaker 1: Also Florida and m But also you got a special

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Speaker 1: relationship with Will.

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Speaker 3: That's right, I tell you know.

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Speaker 8: I text him a picture of the Will Packer and theater.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because he didn't have one proud of it.

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Speaker 3: He's the.

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Speaker 4: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome home, everybody. We got a special special show

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Speaker 1: and we're actually gonna get right into it because you know,

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Speaker 1: we started a little bit later. Angelia insisted that the

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Speaker 1: stage not have any covering, So.

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Speaker 5: I'm really sorry, sorry.

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Speaker 1: For all of our guests. Will be coming forward throughout

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Speaker 1: the day. Just as you start to feel the sweat

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Speaker 1: drip down your face, and through your shirt. You can

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Speaker 1: thank Angelou Raie for having selected again no.

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Speaker 5: Covering for also did and that is put napkins under

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Speaker 5: your boobs.

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Speaker 6: It works very well.

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Speaker 3: How women know about it?

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Speaker 1: Okay, we just re from being a PG thirteen show.

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Speaker 1: Now you know we're explicit, So everybody again explicit.

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Speaker 6: It's not explicit either.

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Speaker 1: Way, y'all. We're about to get ready. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: highest of seven heels, Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University, also

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Speaker 1: known as BAMN.

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Speaker 3: If you say for mood.

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Speaker 1: We know that you are not related to any of us.

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Speaker 1: If you say at a m you we know that

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Speaker 1: you were a guest. Will treat you as a visitor.

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Speaker 7: The king.

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Speaker 1: I was not the King of Origin and Green, but

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Speaker 1: you should have been.

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Speaker 8: Stage Go put on your hand, go put on your hand.

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Speaker 8: I know, but you're blocking, can't you.

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Speaker 1: He's a politician, our friend, your friend and our leader

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Speaker 1: here in the state of Florida from Florida Senate is

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Speaker 1: about to be joined by our future leader Florida Senate.

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Speaker 1: In fact, both are senators. I think, I said the

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Speaker 1: Florida House of Florida Senate Shevard Jones, alumnus of Florida

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Speaker 1: Agricul University, Sir and future senator, former SGA president here

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Speaker 1: two times, SGA president at Florida A and M University president.

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Speaker 1: I was, but he hit it two times. It was

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Speaker 1: so nice he had to do it twice. Check when

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Speaker 1: that comes from them. But importantly, gentlemen, we are so

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Speaker 1: so so happy to have you. Actually, I'm happy to

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Speaker 1: have you. This is home for me, but it is also,

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Speaker 1: by extension, home for these ladies. Yes, Angela calls herself

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Speaker 1: an honorary rattler.

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Speaker 7: I consent.

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Speaker 1: I agree, uh, and Tiffany is another you along.

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Speaker 3: But happy to be.

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Speaker 8: It's all one big family and they but happy to

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Speaker 8: be here. But yeah, bring it, as they're saying, the

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Speaker 8: church bringing greetings, university.

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Speaker 6: Up the road.

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Speaker 1: Send any sin go single money, Oh Lord, send any money. Okay,

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Speaker 1: when you bring greetings, see one to know that they

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Speaker 1: send it past package. Welcome anyway, Senator, Yes, sir, I

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Speaker 1: hope that you're up here not only celebrating homecoming, but

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Speaker 1: helping to recruit a new colleague into the state Senate.

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Speaker 9: Listen, I sent him some some love yesterday and we

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Speaker 9: got to sing him a little bit more to get

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Speaker 1: All right, yeah, I sent him some money, yes, Aryl asked.

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Speaker 10: Well, without question, Well, unfortunately the fundraising deadline was yesterday,

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Speaker 10: but he did send money in time.

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Speaker 11: I did. Yep.

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Speaker 7: Maybe give me my props. Now, what's up?

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Speaker 6: Daryl said, to be clear, as as an attorney, I

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Speaker 6: did not violate.

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Speaker 10: They're good, they're not, you know, but we're doing great.

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Speaker 10: Senator Jones and his colleagues have done a great job

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Speaker 10: of helping my campaign. Andrew saidate Democrats actually coming together

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Speaker 10: to win a race, and I think on on Tuesday,

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Speaker 10: we're gonna take back the Senate seat and flip it.

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Speaker 7: Then we're gonna flip.

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Speaker 10: The seat back right, and we're gonna This is the

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Speaker 10: number one legislators race in the state, and we all

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Speaker 10: have gotten behind it to win it. So it's been

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Speaker 10: a very collective effort on our part.

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Speaker 8: I've seen a lot of your commercials. They are like

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Speaker 8: back to back in there, Yes, which is great. But

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Speaker 8: a lot of our viewers are outside of Florida. So

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Speaker 8: if people who don't live in Florida, what is the

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Speaker 8: relevancy your race? Why should they care? Why should they

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Speaker 8: pay attention? Or they if they're hearing they should be

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Speaker 8: so moved to send a donation for the next tone,

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Speaker 8: I know, but for the next line, when you ask

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Speaker 8: for re election, tell the people why they should care.

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Speaker 10: It's the significance of it. So the Republicans came a

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Speaker 10: couple of years ago. They jeremeded this particular district and

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Speaker 10: designed it so that the Republican would have a better

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Speaker 10: chance of winning. And they created a super district, so

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Speaker 10: it's thirteen counties, it covers twenty percent of the geographic

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Speaker 10: area of the whole state. And then they went and

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Speaker 10: got a former football player, gave him lots of money

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Speaker 10: and flipped the seat. And you probably recall our governor

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Speaker 10: when he was campaigning in Iowa, he would brag about

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Speaker 10: that there was a state Senate seat that had been

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Speaker 10: Democratic for one hundred years. They flipped it for Democrat

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Speaker 10: to republic And so this particular seat also, though, is

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Speaker 10: one of the seats that gave the republic As the supermajority.

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Speaker 10: So now we need to flip two seats back to

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Speaker 10: take that super majority away. But that's important to the seat,

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Speaker 10: and so we thought it important, I mean really in

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Speaker 10: philosophically and what it represents to flip the seat back

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Speaker 10: to Democrat. So I was lucky enough one decided that

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Speaker 10: I could. I was that one of the people that

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Speaker 10: could make this happen. And two the Senate Democrats sheriving

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Speaker 10: in his colleagues decided that they would invest in it.

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Speaker 10: And so the cool thing about it is that I

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Speaker 10: had two eight hundred donors in the primary. And so

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Speaker 10: you've seen a whole bunch of folks around the country,

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Speaker 10: around the state, and around the city come and help

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Speaker 10: me and did as I city. Today we probably have

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Speaker 10: over four thousand donors, so we've raised Collectively, they raised

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Speaker 10: about three point one million. I raised about two point

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Speaker 10: six million on my side of it, and we're taking

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Speaker 5: Can you just for the sound, folks, if you can

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Speaker 5: keep our mics up so we can hear each other,

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Speaker 5: especially with the music, that'd be great.

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Speaker 6: I want to ask you, Darryl, like, what was the

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Speaker 6: impetus for you?

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Speaker 5: You've been a civil rights lawyer, you've been on the

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Speaker 5: ethics committee with the Bar, You've really dedicated your life

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Speaker 5: to advocacy and service.

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Speaker 6: What made you want to run for public office?

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Speaker 10: Well, Angela is normally, I mean when you live in

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Speaker 10: a good life like most folks in America. You see

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Speaker 10: what's going on, and as Andrew tell you, we're very close.

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Speaker 10: So I was involved in when Andrew ran and been around.

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Speaker 7: Florida is important.

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Speaker 10: Florida represents a lot to my family, to everything that

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Speaker 10: I belong, that I am. And when you see what

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Speaker 10: the people in power are doing, how they're managing it,

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Speaker 10: you have to ask yourself that somebody capable has to

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Speaker 10: start the cycle the flip. You just can't keep giving up.

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Speaker 10: And so, like you say, being and I did great

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Speaker 10: civil rights work. I have a great name in this town.

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Speaker 10: I knew and the Republicans knew that I was the

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Speaker 10: type of person that could beat their guy. And we're

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Speaker 10: beating their guy. And on Tuesday, he's going home back

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 1: I know y'all are visiting Angela and Tiffany. But and

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Speaker 1: the ads that his opponent is running and he's certainly

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Speaker 1: an otherwise decent person, is spending most of this time

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Speaker 1: talking biography, and we come together. Now he's the incumbent.

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Speaker 1: When you the incumbent in the seat, everybody knows you

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Speaker 1: talk about what you've done public policy wise, how you've

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Speaker 1: improved the area in which you have been elected to

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Speaker 1: represent And I found it interesting, Darryl that as between

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Speaker 1: the two of you, you're the one talking about.

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Speaker 6: Issues the incumbent that sound familiar.

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Speaker 1: It's not talking about but that's what that's what the

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Speaker 1: Republicans constantly run on.

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Speaker 9: If you even look at Corey Senator Simon and what

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Speaker 9: he has done since he's been in this I mean

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Speaker 9: sending assignment, I mean he signed with the Republicans on

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Speaker 9: all of the black history, elimination of black history, as

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Speaker 9: far as ap African American studies. He ran the bill

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Speaker 9: him in committee like yo, dude, you you're a black

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Speaker 9: man running a bill like this, and his justification of

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Speaker 9: it was just mind blowing, not just to the Democrats,

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Speaker 9: did he support this type of legislation. I also say

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Speaker 9: why we need Daryl in the Senate is because we're deadlocked.

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Speaker 7: We're gonna have a three fourth.

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Speaker 9: So by the time we get into the legislator, whether

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Speaker 9: we show up or not, they can start session or

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Speaker 9: whether we're going to committee or not. We can't break nothing,

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Speaker 9: but with this one, I know we can't because I

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Speaker 9: believe there is an absolute pushback that's going to have

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Speaker 9: what they want to do for next session.

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Speaker 7: They wanna make it harder for ballot.

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Speaker 6: Initiatives next year.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I know for a fact they're.

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Speaker 9: Gonna go after local governments again, and we need to

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Speaker 9: have the numbers to be able to block a lot

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Speaker 9: to continue to eat at our public education system. And

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Speaker 9: it's not something that I am talking hypothetical. I'm talking

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Speaker 9: something that I know what's happening, that absolutely brewing in

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Speaker 9: the background.

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Speaker 1: So could you explain to me why it is that

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Speaker 1: Florida and the Florida Legislature is gifting the country so

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Speaker 1: many black Republican elected officials. We got Byron Donaldson, Donalds.

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Speaker 6: Donald donald disrespect on his name.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know him.

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Speaker 6: He ain't even finished here, Donaldson.

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Speaker 1: Donald's. We got Simon, who we hopefully will be retiring soon.

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Speaker 1: But what about the Florida Legislature keeps producing these.

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Speaker 3: Byron Donaldson Toby.

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Speaker 6: To stop making I have.

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Speaker 10: Pledged and they have a new one too, called Grace Glass.

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Speaker 10: She's running against Gallop right now. Oh really, Grace Glass

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Speaker 10: is her name. She's from Bavard County. She came here

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Speaker 10: to work for the say this real? And so I said,

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Speaker 10: her psyche. Yeah, and so so at lunch, I hope

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Speaker 10: I didn't really disrespectful, I said, was you are a

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Speaker 10: Again, but it all starts from the twenty twenty five

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Legislative Exchange councilor yeah.

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Speaker 5: Like in play yes, literally copy and paste. Well, we

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Speaker 11: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: We are thrilled to have you, and we know that

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Speaker 1: Before we let them go, they quickly give us their

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Speaker 9: I think that that Vice President Harris will do well

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Florida's gonna go blue.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm gonna tell you why.

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Speaker 9: Because people are not paying attention to the independence Independences

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Speaker 9: learning that in Miami Dade County while Miami Dade County,

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Speaker 7: So I think it's going to be a big upset.

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Speaker 7: And the Republicans are they are running scared.

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Speaker 9: They're running scared on three, they're running scared on four,

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Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, that's six.

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Speaker 3: What you got to say, without question, what we.

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Speaker 11: Did as early as last week.

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Speaker 10: We see we have an eight point advantage with independence,

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Speaker 11: Yeah, it's showing up.

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Speaker 10: But one, this is a fifture three percent Democratic district

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Speaker 7: Exactly.

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Speaker 1: Well, we want to think again. Our guests one sitting

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Speaker 1: Senator Chevyn Jones and the Florida Senator and in just

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Speaker 5: Next up, we have Melanie Campbell, who is the President

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Speaker 5: Clap it up as they the state get, we get some,

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Speaker 8: I can't take another piece of clothing on me. Are

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Speaker 3: Yeah, behind right behind you.

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Speaker 6: So good to see you. Thank you, guys.

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Speaker 1: Get those couches together.

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Speaker 6: We don't want to Oh yeah, they has a careful yeah,

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Speaker 3: I want you all to know. It's about one and

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Speaker 8: But I hear, I feel a fan and it's a

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Speaker 8: the can we Talk challenge? Can we It's like when

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Speaker 6: Oh, the whole song. Yeah, that's a great idea. Till yeah, Well,

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Speaker 5: One thing that we know, and I think Andrew will attest,

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Speaker 6: Him and his powerful black sister. And if we wile

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 5: The other thing I'm gonna say was what we know

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Speaker 6: But talk about the importance of the black vote this season.

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Speaker 5: What you all are hearing you all are in battleground states,

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Speaker 12: Well, first of all, thank you all for so I'm

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Speaker 12: You know, you know I went to Clark but you

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Speaker 12: We started a year ago in Florida for thirty days,

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Speaker 12: just going from community community, listening to the folks to

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Speaker 12: That it's called Freedom and Joy.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I love it.

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Speaker 12: And our tagline is we won't be erased and we

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Speaker 12: have seen and what we've seen is that black folks

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Speaker 7: Is ugliness is out there now.

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Speaker 12: But our people are clear that African drum beats beating

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Speaker 1: This is of our future.

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Speaker 6: And uh and young people all over this campus. We've

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Speaker 12: We've been here since yesterday, but we've been in Michigan

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Speaker 7: But it's it's it's something.

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Speaker 6: It's been something, and it's also been exciting and evailorating

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Speaker 1: We built this country, as Angela says, for free.

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Speaker 3: It's data five Beta.

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Speaker 8: I will be remiss if I did not say my

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Speaker 1: So love it.

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Speaker 7: Yes, my father was a signal.

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Speaker 6: That's why we live.

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Speaker 13: We love the blue and white.

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Speaker 11: I mean, we are under.

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Speaker 14: But seriously though the power in being here, I too

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Speaker 14: So as we come together to educate our communities on

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Speaker 13: They're understanding this.

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Speaker 6: I have a quick question for the Reverend SHVN. I

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Speaker 5: We had Jamal Harrison Brian join us on our podcast

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Speaker 6: You're powerful, you are anointed.

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Speaker 15: So the children that I lost, I could have been

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Speaker 15: arrested for some of the procedures that I had to

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Speaker 15: actually have. And I've birthed one son, and I tell

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Speaker 15: people all the time in the church, this is not

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Speaker 15: about your conviction. This is about constitutional freedom. You can

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Speaker 15: have your belief. No one's ever tried to change your belief.

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Speaker 15: But what we are saying is if they can come

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Speaker 15: in and tell you what to do with your body,

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Speaker 15: what happens when they come in and say you can't

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Speaker 15: go to this church anymore. What happens when they take

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Speaker 15: you Jesus away from you? What happens when they tell

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Speaker 15: you you can't go to that school, you can't go

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Speaker 15: to this school? And the moral mischief, it is so

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Speaker 15: consuming of us because we feel like we're gonna go

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Speaker 15: to hell if we say these steps, and it scares

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Speaker 15: people even.

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Speaker 7: Away from the polls.

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Speaker 15: So you'll see black preachers saying things like I can't

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Speaker 15: vote for ex party right and playing it plays a

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Speaker 15: game that confuses the mind. And I'm gonna tell you something.

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Speaker 15: It is a concerted effort. It is a coordinated plan.

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Speaker 15: And to the evangelizic evangelical Christians that are out there,

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Speaker 15: let me tell you something. Evangelical just means to evangelize.

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Speaker 3: They have their word, and it is wrong.

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Speaker 15: Black people are actually evangelical because we tell good news,

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Speaker 15: we evangelize. But what the political pundits have done is

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Speaker 15: use that word, kidnapped it, misconstrued and confused minds to

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Speaker 15: make you think that that if I now am evangelical,

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Speaker 15: if I am pro life, well, if you're pro life,

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Speaker 15: then that means you're pro all life. That means your

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Speaker 15: pro Black life, your pro Brown life, you're pro all

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Speaker 15: life for all the stages, in all ages and spaces.

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Speaker 15: Let me close with this around the church and the

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Speaker 15: faith piece, because Black people are a people of resilience

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Speaker 15: and we are a people of faith, whatever your faith is.

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Speaker 15: But we are still the largest number of Americans that

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Speaker 15: attend the church. Now as that's still decreasing, our population

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Speaker 15: still engages in fellowship. And this is why I call

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Speaker 15: on black preachers, want to advance your black women clergy,

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Speaker 15: the ones that can give life, so we can speak.

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Speaker 7: About the life that we are affecting.

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Speaker 15: But also I tell my brothers and sisters behind the claw,

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Speaker 15: do not misconstrue the Gospel for your own plan. Do

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Speaker 15: not do that, because that's not what Jesus does. Jesus

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Speaker 15: is justice. It's an alignment. And if we're talking about

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Speaker 15: this social justice space voting, this is of God. It

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Speaker 15: is of God for you to go to vote. Why

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Speaker 15: because he calls on us to engage in the governor's work.

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Speaker 15: That's what we talked about in the world. So we

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Speaker 15: are really seeing a the real challenge in the body

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Speaker 15: of Christ where black and white and Hispanic and Asian

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Speaker 15: are all in this molthy pot of confusion. But the

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Speaker 15: Black Church is being called out in a way that

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Speaker 15: is just so disgusting, but it is so racist, and

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Speaker 15: that's what that's actually how this institution started.

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Speaker 3: An I want to.

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Speaker 8: Just say really quickly because there are so many people

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Speaker 8: I know being weaned on the teachings of Washington, DC

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Speaker 8: that you all are common knowledge to us, But there

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Speaker 8: are so many young people, unfortunately, who are not familiar

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Speaker 8: with the work of NCNW National Council of Negro Women

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Speaker 8: founded by doctor Dorothy Hyde. I was vice president of

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Speaker 8: the Millennial section that was forever ago, twenty four years ago. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: I learned how to organized through National Council of Negro Women,

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Speaker 8: and that was meant to carry the message for younger people,

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Speaker 8: and it's time for another generation of younger people to

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Speaker 8: carry forward the mission of NC ANDW.

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Speaker 3: So I wanted to offer our viewers that background.

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Speaker 8: But I also want to point out I met a

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Speaker 8: woman in the audience who is an advocate for Amendment

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Speaker 8: for Right here in floor Florida, which essentially codifies abortion

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Speaker 8: rights here in the state. Something shocking is that they

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Speaker 8: were told they could not tent or table here at

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Speaker 8: fam you. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to look into

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Speaker 8: the background of it, but my surmise perhaps because it may.

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Speaker 3: Be an issue with state funded schools.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Republicans leadership Ron DeSantis, who has invested interest in

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Speaker 8: silencing these voices and making sure that this amendment doesn't pass,

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Speaker 8: And our previous guests talked about how important ballid initiatives are.

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Speaker 8: So this is where why we have local elected officials here,

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Speaker 8: This is where the local government meets the federal government

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Speaker 8: and Republicans at one point in time, we're all about

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Speaker 8: small government except when it comes to our bodies, except

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Speaker 8: our choice, productive rights, and our choices exactly, except when

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Speaker 8: it comes to anything that they want to have control over.

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Speaker 8: So I just wanted to make sure that we highlight

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Speaker 8: Amendment for right here in Florida. Please, if you are

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Speaker 8: a resident of Florida, I'll look into it.

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Speaker 3: Do the right thing.

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Speaker 8: And I want to thank the woman in the audience

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Speaker 8: who told me about amendment for it. Thank you for

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Speaker 8: being here with us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I and the we need to keep allies like

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Speaker 1: you all at the national level close to states like Florida.

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Speaker 1: For sure, as we laid out previous to your arrival,

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Speaker 1: that these states oftentimes are the play field for much

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Speaker 1: of what ultimately happens at the federal level. They tested

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Speaker 1: with the guinea pigs. For sure. Ron de Santis is

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Speaker 1: the biggest of the of the perpetrators of making Florida

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Speaker 1: the guinea pig of the new extreme right. You talked

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Speaker 1: about the suspension of these rights on campuses, but he's

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Speaker 1: spent over I think the estimate is over fifty million

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Speaker 1: in public taxpayer dollars against.

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Speaker 6: Well, that's why we came a year ago.

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Speaker 7: That's right.

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Speaker 6: We know what the state would have.

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Speaker 12: Been like had you That's happening in our home state,

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Speaker 12: which is why we wanted to make sure we stayed

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Speaker 12: a whole month.

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Speaker 6: When we started.

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Speaker 12: This was because so many things and what we wanted

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Speaker 12: to point out about Florida was if you want to

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Speaker 12: know what fascism looks like, come to this of Florida.

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Speaker 12: And so what I'm seeing though, is a resurgence of

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Speaker 12: organizing in this state. And because the numbers have always

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Speaker 12: been there, right, And so he came run a second time, right,

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Speaker 12: And I was glad to see them, just speaking as a.

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Speaker 7: Native of Florida.

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Speaker 12: Yes, and see Darren Parks up here and I ran

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Speaker 12: into it earlier home. And how important it is that

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Speaker 12: we don't turn this state over because the numbers are there.

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Speaker 12: Florida has a young demographic. People still see Florida, you

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Speaker 12: see Mickey Mouse and all that. But when it comes

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Speaker 12: and then they say retirement. The truth of the matter,

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Speaker 12: you know this that a lot of young people the

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Speaker 12: state has changed, and the numbers are there that I

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Speaker 12: believe that there's gonna be surgeon. And the reason we're

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Speaker 12: in the South too, is because if sixty percent of

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Speaker 12: black people live in the South, if we want to

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Speaker 12: see this country change, we have to make sure the

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Speaker 12: South changes.

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Speaker 6: In Alabama, but take them, that's such.

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Speaker 8: A it's such a common understanding. Like the racism and

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Speaker 8: the suppression is almost baked in and how the media

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Speaker 8: covers the electoral map. What would it take given that

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Speaker 8: a majority of us either currently live in the South

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Speaker 8: or we originate from the South, and there are small

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Speaker 8: pockets of evidence of a remigration, you know, where people

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Speaker 8: are the South right, So what does it take to

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Speaker 8: actually change those numbers? And I asked Mellie, because you

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Speaker 8: know this, when we were in Atlanta, Atlanta in the

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Speaker 8: nineties was a different city. Today I look at Atlanta

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Speaker 8: and this is no shade. I grew up in Atlanta.

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Speaker 8: I love Atlanta, but there are so many transplants who

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Speaker 8: do not appreciate what the magic is of having that

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Speaker 8: black ass city run by black officials, creating black wealth

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Speaker 8: with black homeowners, black college graduates taught by black people.

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Speaker 8: And I think when transplants come and they like the

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Speaker 8: city of Oz, everything is gold. And I run a

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Speaker 8: studio in my baseman and I got a hair salon

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Speaker 8: or whatever. But it takes responsibility to hold on to that.

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Speaker 8: So what does it take to change the South?

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Speaker 6: Vote next year?

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Speaker 10: Vote in these state legislative races.

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Speaker 3: That has stated trouble.

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Speaker 12: The power dynamic in these states because of state like Mississippi,

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Speaker 12: we saw try to move up now.

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Speaker 6: The reality is when they.

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Speaker 12: Control the legislature, they those who don't believe in inclusion,

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Speaker 12: take over the state legislation, take over the governors races,

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Speaker 12: and then they take over the census.

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Speaker 7: Then you end up with this like reversal.

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Speaker 12: And you're trying to come back to it, but we

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Speaker 12: have to really find a way, uh, to to continue

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Speaker 12: next year, to keep it's going, because.

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Speaker 6: That's the only way going otherwise, you know.

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Speaker 13: And then.

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Speaker 15: That's what I'm gonna say, because you can be the

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Speaker 15: blackest state in the Union and still not have power

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Speaker 15: in the state legislature.

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Speaker 3: That's which makes no sense.

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Speaker 15: So the real question will it becomes is one who's

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Speaker 15: running to who's mobilizing? And then three where where does

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Speaker 15: real power line? Because that's the real question we have

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Speaker 15: to start answering. This question about power has been the challenge.

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Speaker 15: The dynamics won't shift until the people see themselves as

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Speaker 15: the power. So that's that that comes from us mobilizing,

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Speaker 15: that comes from these the Native Land podcast is power

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Speaker 15: because you get to own the message, you get to

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Speaker 15: own the content, the context. But if we're raising young

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Speaker 15: generations to not see themselves as the power, then they're

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Speaker 15: not gonna run.

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Speaker 7: They're not gonna see.

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Speaker 16: Value in this.

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Speaker 15: So there's no way we can say that we're and

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Speaker 15: we always see I'm I'm a Jersey girl, so I'm

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Speaker 15: a by way of Florida planned city. And I feel

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Speaker 15: I think about why we say the South has something

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Speaker 15: to say. The South already has said it, but has

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Speaker 15: the South mobilized to get it? And what I'm saying

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Speaker 15: is that this black excellence about Atlanta is real. Manard

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Speaker 15: Jackson was a whole phenomenon in.

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Speaker 6: And of itself.

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Speaker 15: We're not even having that conversation about who do we

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Speaker 15: train the contracts to prepare the next generation of power seekers.

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Speaker 15: It's about power.

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Speaker 7: It's not just money.

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Speaker 15: It's power, position money access.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's position money access.

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Speaker 1: That's not a president you're close to. We're closing.

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Speaker 6: No, no, we're not, We're not yet. Hold on.

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Speaker 5: I was just gonna say, if you all see Lolo

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Speaker 5: Lolo Wavier your mic in the air. We didn't say

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Speaker 5: at the beginning of the show that our shows are

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Speaker 5: our live shows in particular. One you all know when

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Speaker 5: we send in videos to get videos from you all

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Speaker 5: every week to the podcast, but when we come to you,

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Speaker 5: we want to make sure that it's an active and

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Speaker 5: engaged conversation, because it is so much more than just voting.

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Speaker 6: It's also utilizing your voice. So we have a mic

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Speaker 6: here if you have a comment or a question while

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Speaker 6: we have these incredible queen's up here. Andrew, I know

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Speaker 6: you had a question.

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Speaker 1: Well matter first of all, impressed with you every time

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Speaker 1: I say you. I was doing the dishes.

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Speaker 7: My wife was at her.

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Speaker 1: Work station and we heard a voice in this interview

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Speaker 1: responding to Donald Trump's whole party as he neglected the

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Speaker 1: work of these CERTs and sororities. And there's this voice

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Speaker 1: coming over speaking powerful truth.

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Speaker 13: And I put the dish.

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Speaker 16: Who was.

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Speaker 7: She is good?

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Speaker 1: So thank you for your representation not only of obviously

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Speaker 1: your illustrious organization, but more broadly for black folks, including

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Speaker 1: black Greeks. I did want to ask you your your

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Speaker 1: organization obviously engages with alumni, adults, folks who are fully working,

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Speaker 1: but also you're closest to young people, the folks who

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Speaker 1: are your training to become your future alumni. I'm curious

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Speaker 1: it's just what reed you've been getting as you all

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Speaker 1: have moved around the country. As a relate said, this election,

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Speaker 1: the potential of Harris as the next president.

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Speaker 13: Absolutely so.

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Speaker 14: For us as an organization, where proud that we did

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Speaker 14: establish youth auxiliaries, the first to do that, and all

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Speaker 14: of us have our youth auxiliaries now that we're working

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Speaker 14: with because what we're allowing them to say and giving

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Speaker 14: them platform. When we vote, we're voting for them. We're

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Speaker 14: voting for their future. We have our young mikaz and

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Speaker 14: our arcdents. They're making policy papers, they're talking to their teachers,

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Speaker 14: they're holding their own forums on why it's important for

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Speaker 14: their parents to vote, their relatives to vote, because we

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Speaker 14: are preparing them for what it looks like to advocate

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Speaker 14: for the rights of everybody. And thank you for your

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Speaker 14: kind words. What I tell everyone is when you see me,

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Speaker 14: you see every other black woman in this room and

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Speaker 14: on this planet. I'm not here by myself, but because

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Speaker 14: so many thousand came before me whose names will never

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Speaker 14: be heard. And we are drinking from wells we did

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Speaker 14: not dig. So we cannot take this for granted that

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Speaker 14: we are sitting here advocating as a D nine stronger together.

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Speaker 14: They see our colors, they see our shields. Everyone gets excited,

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Speaker 14: but it's deeper. Than the surface. It's about the mission

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Speaker 14: that our founders put us on so that we can

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Speaker 14: uplift the community.

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Speaker 13: We can't just get and keep, we get to give.

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Speaker 14: So through our service and through elevating conversations, we are

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Speaker 14: able to get out of this pocket of knowing where

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Speaker 14: the Black state? But how do we now prepare with

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Speaker 14: strategy around how we not only keep it but advance

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Speaker 14: it for the future. So when you talked about reproductive rights,

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Speaker 14: I didn't share until today publicly on Alive. I could

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Speaker 14: have been arrested under these rules because I lost my

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Speaker 14: child in between my two sons. This is serious and

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Speaker 14: I love the Lord. I'm unapologetic about it. Anybody that

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Speaker 14: knows me knows I don't.

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Speaker 13: Play with my Jesus.

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Speaker 14: But what we cannot do is allow other people to

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Speaker 14: tell our story. We can't allow other people to shift

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Speaker 14: the narrative of the truth. These alternate realities.

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Speaker 6: That we're hearing.

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Speaker 14: It's unreal and people are confused about the truth.

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Speaker 13: And I think it was John Howard Wesley. I was

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Speaker 13: John where he talked about true and truth.

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Speaker 14: So if you believe something to be true, right, you

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Speaker 14: believe that it's okay for in this state to tell

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Speaker 14: children that slavery was good for them. Then it becomes

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Speaker 14: your reality and you try to convince other people to

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Speaker 14: join in. This election is about setting the record straight right,

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Speaker 14: It's about making sure our young people understand that when

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Speaker 14: we walk into that ballot box, it's for their future.

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Speaker 14: So all of our organizations have been on the ground

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Speaker 14: every single state, every single community, having these conversations.

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Speaker 13: Shout out to this podcast for the work.

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Speaker 14: That you do, because what I'm finding is that we

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Speaker 14: are suffering an necessarily in silence because we're not elevating

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Speaker 14: our voices. And when we elevate our voices, then we

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Speaker 14: can talk about the truth of the small margins that

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Speaker 14: win these elections. Many of people stay home and get

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Speaker 14: frustrated and say, well, I'm not gonna be bothered. It's

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Speaker 14: too much, I'm confused, I'm stressed out. Don't get stressed out.

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Speaker 13: Do something.

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Speaker 14: That's what Michelle Obama says, do something, and something means voting.

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Speaker 14: So when you look into the eyes of a five

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Speaker 14: year old who doesn't understand politics, but understands that they

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Speaker 14: want their mother to live God forbid, something goes wrong.

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Speaker 14: When you look at a teenage boy and my mother

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Speaker 14: of two black men who I can say to them,

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Speaker 14: do you understand what immunity means.

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Speaker 13: On the ballot?

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Speaker 14: Do you understand that if God forbid something happens, there's

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Speaker 14: no recourse. These are the issues we need to talk about,

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Speaker 14: and our young people are getting it. Yeah, they're understanding it.

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Speaker 14: And because they see other peers coming together to have

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Speaker 14: the conversations, it makes.

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Speaker 13: It easier for us to move forward and.

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Speaker 14: Not turn back the hands of time in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 14: That the blood that was shed on this country's ground

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Speaker 14: has to be screaming from the grave if we allow

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Speaker 14: us to go back to what they thought for us

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Speaker 14: to walk through.

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Speaker 3: We don't get to keep. We get to give.

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Speaker 8: And I want you to know when I say that

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Speaker 8: next week on the podcast, I'm giving you credit.

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Speaker 3: I'm giving you credit, but I'm stealing it.

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Speaker 5: I know we have to let you because y'all are

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Speaker 5: going to your brunch and we've kept you long. But

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Speaker 5: I do want to just say one thing. In addition

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Speaker 5: to voting, we have to mobilize, and we do really appreciate,

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Speaker 5: we're so grateful for the support that we've gotten from

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Speaker 5: the community for the podcast. My ask of you all

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Speaker 5: is to make sure that you share this segment that

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Speaker 5: you're on with your membership.

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Speaker 15: We're on right now.

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Speaker 5: I make sure that you make sure that you share

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Speaker 5: and tell them to tell a friend, because what this

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Speaker 5: is is a convening of a safe space for all

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Speaker 5: of us. We are your hosts, but we are merely

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Speaker 5: the vessels and the facilitators for this space, so that

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Speaker 5: everyone feels like they have an opportunity to share their opinions,

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Speaker 5: to ask a question that they may have been too

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Speaker 5: a shame to share.

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Speaker 6: So continue to do that, and thank y'all so much

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Speaker 6: for what you.

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Speaker 12: Post all were put to do this for this moment.

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Speaker 12: This is the binde of us are connected for a reason, right,

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Speaker 12: Thank you all, and keep doing what you're doing and.

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Speaker 6: Come getting the boat.

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Speaker 14: Conditioning y'all, blessing over you, showing the black man's voice,

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Speaker 14: black woman's voice, working together everyone, we'reparated.

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Speaker 15: Love y'all.

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Speaker 6: Thank thank you, love y'all, Thank you, thank you for everything.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Get towels, sweat town, listen you were I tell y'all,

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Speaker 3: I'm doing good.

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Speaker 6: I got my napkins up under my boobs. I'm all right.

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Speaker 3: Are we doing the sneak next man this way.

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Speaker 5: Next we have the fox. Is there any questions? Are

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Speaker 5: comments from the audience? If now we're gonna move along

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Speaker 5: to our next man. All right, y'all are feeling quiet,

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Speaker 5: you must be on one of them. We have Jasmine

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Speaker 5: Bernie Clark, who is the Harris for President Florida State director.

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Speaker 6: Y'all, sorry, we got we just gotta.

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Speaker 3: Take the kind of forever.

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Speaker 5: We have Lauren May who's the university trustee and holds

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Speaker 5: the position that Andrew wants.

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Speaker 6: Hell, she's the student body president.

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Speaker 1: I was the first trustee.

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Speaker 6: Okay, first trustee said get the history right.

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Speaker 5: And then we have Christopher Matthews who's the president of

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Speaker 5: Family's Chapter of Helping.

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Speaker 6: Black Communities Unite. Thank you all for being here.

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Speaker 5: Happy to see you, ja Don Lauren, I said, jazzmin Sorry,

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Speaker 5: this is Jasmine Lauren.

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Speaker 6: It's good to see you. We were handled together recent Jazz.

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Speaker 8: Boss, Lauren and the young man in the middle. But

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Speaker 8: we can make sure Christopher's mike is work and please.

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Speaker 6: And put it a little closer. Thank you coming to

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Speaker 6: you as well.

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Speaker 1: How has it been so far? Tell us what we

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Speaker 1: have to look forward to, and especially how voter registration

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Speaker 1: and turnout is going for students, Yes, definitely.

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Speaker 17: So it has been going great so far. My vice president,

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Speaker 17: Decree Williams, has been doing a great job with planning homecoming.

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Speaker 17: We've had some different things this year. A lot of

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Speaker 17: our events have been at the Willpacker Amphitheater and I

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Speaker 17: think that's and it has made the student engagement go

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Speaker 17: up a lot. Tonight we have the n PhD Step

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Speaker 17: Show tomorrow is the game. I know everybody is looking

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Speaker 17: forward to that. And as far as voters registration, we

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Speaker 17: have been doing a lot of things, you know, get

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Speaker 17: the students out there. We just had a stroll to

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Speaker 17: the polls. We had all the Divine nine organizations out

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Speaker 17: with Campus Vote Project and it was a great turnout.

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Speaker 17: And I think the students they're very geared up to

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Speaker 17: vote this year.

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Speaker 3: And I see you're pink and green.

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Speaker 6: Yes, definitely, Yes, I love that.

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Speaker 5: One of the things I remember, Lauren, we did a

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Speaker 5: panel together recently in Bringingham. You talked about being raised

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Speaker 5: in a family of politicians.

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Speaker 6: Yes, definitely. How has that mattered for you in this

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Speaker 6: election cycle?

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Speaker 5: In particular, how have you used that history within your

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Speaker 5: own family to motivate folks to go.

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Speaker 6: Out and vote.

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Speaker 5: There's literally an early voting station across the street from

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Speaker 5: where we are, right across set. Yes, sorry, right across

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Speaker 5: the set from where we are, across from will Packer Amphitheater.

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Speaker 1: Yes, definitely.

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Speaker 17: I think as student body president, it's not only important

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Speaker 17: for me to advocate and put out information about voters,

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Speaker 17: education and registration, but for me to actually be doing

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Speaker 17: the things that we're talking about, Because if the representation

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Speaker 17: of the student body isn't getting out there, voting and

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Speaker 17: getting my hands dirty, how can I encourage the rest

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Speaker 17: of the student body to do the same.

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Speaker 1: I love it, Jasmine. I know your hands are full here. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it has been and is an organizer, continuing organizer, but

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Speaker 1: right now is leading the Harris Wallas campaign here in

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Speaker 1: the state of Florida. Yes, how has it been. I

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Speaker 1: know we're at the top of the state, but I

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Speaker 1: know energy has been on full display for the South.

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Speaker 6: Energy has been electric.

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Speaker 18: Since the transition has occurred here in the state of Florida,

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Speaker 18: we have seen the highest number of voter participation we

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Speaker 18: have ever seen in our state's history. And actually just

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Speaker 18: recently this campaign has received more participation by way of

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Speaker 18: volunteers and voter contact than the last four presidential elections

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Speaker 18: in history. So that is a testament to the amount

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Speaker 18: of people who are feeling this campaign, not only you know,

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Speaker 18: through thoughts, prayers, and support, but they're actually digging in

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Speaker 18: and getting engaged. We have county parties who are trying

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Speaker 18: to figure out where to put all of these people

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Speaker 18: in their offices because they're so full of enthusiasm across

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Speaker 18: the state.

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Speaker 1: So what's your projection. I know you've got to be

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Speaker 1: optimistic as a director, but.

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Speaker 18: We're incredibly wantimistic. We are excited about what we're seeing.

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Speaker 18: Here's the thing. We know that Republicans have a million

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Speaker 18: vote margin here in the state of Florida, but we

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Speaker 18: are not seeing that actually show up in early vote numbers.

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Speaker 18: We're not seeing that be represented. So you may have

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Speaker 18: registered them, but you never engage them. You're not talking

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Speaker 18: to them. We are bringing folks over to our side.

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Speaker 18: We're bringing as many Republicans and independence into the fold

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Speaker 18: as we possibly can, and they're showing up and they're

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Speaker 18: bringing other folks with them.

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Speaker 8: Christopher, I love having you on the panel because one

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Speaker 8: thing that we do on this show is tried as

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Speaker 8: often as possible to center the voices of everybody, especially

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Speaker 8: black men. If our viewers would call our past few shows,

887
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 8: we've had an i say, asymmetric number of black male guests.

888
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 3: Now I know my peer group.

889
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 8: And my seniors and the people right below me, and

890
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 8: they are enthusiastic to vote for Vice President Harris despite

891
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 8: this false media narrative perpetuated by folks who don't look

892
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 8: like us. I'm curious from your peer group, who I

893
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 8: don't have the privilege of talking to as much, how

894
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 8: confident are you that young black men are going to

895
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 8: show up to these polls enthusiastically on Tuesday.

896
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 16: I'm pretty enthusiastic about it. I think most black men

897
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 16: are supporting Harris at this point in time, and I

898
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 16: think that's never kind of been an issue amongst us.

899
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 16: We've always kind of demonstrated our support for her. I

900
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,879
Speaker 16: do think there may be a slight turnout for Trump

901
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 16: or for the other side and the replica Republican Party,

902
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 16: but I don't think that's gonna negate the fact that

903
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:20,240
Speaker 16: black men have an overwhelming support for Kamala Harris.

904
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:22,439
Speaker 3: Do you hear people saying that in your peer group?

905
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 8: Do you hear people talking to you about okay, and

906
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 8: what is the what is their I guess attraction, like

907
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 8: what attracts them to the other side of this divide.

908
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 16: Honestly, I wouldn't say it's attracting to the other side.

909
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 16: I think a lot of them feel like their versus

910
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 16: voices haven't been heard. They feel like this, well, a

911
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 16: lot of us are. A lot of them are looking

912
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 16: at the state of the community and just thinking about

913
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 16: what's you know, changing over these last four years, or

914
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 16: what's over the last eight years. And most people are

915
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 16: opting not to vote. That's what I kind of hear

916
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 16: more so than like voting for Trump. I see most

917
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 16: people saying I'm just not going to vote at all.

918
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 16: And that's honestly where a lot of people are at

919
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 16: nowadays in terms of like just seeing a political system

920
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 16: in the government and.

921
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you say to them?

922
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 16: Yeah, I respond to them. So the way we do

923
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 16: it with our organization HBCU, Inc. So we try to

924
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 16: get the students engaged in different ways. So one method

925
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 16: was just doing postcarding where they write postcards and put

926
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 16: express their own ideas of what they want change to

927
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 16: those people, and the postcards go out to Florida Virginia

928
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 16: and other states around the nation. And this makes the

929
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 16: students feel like they're engaged in actually doing something and

930
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 16: getting their voice across instead of just you know, I'm

931
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 16: gonna go to the selection and hope that they do

932
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 16: something for me after it.

933
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 8: So can I want to ask a follow up? And

934
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 8: this is a straight up We try to keep it

935
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:55,240
Speaker 8: a buck on this show. So I am really curious when.

936
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 6: Like you in the dorm with your people, you.

937
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: He ain't do yeah, I'm fourth you or not, You're

938
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:06,959
Speaker 1: with your.

939
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 3: Friends wherever you.

940
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 8: Right, whatever is appropriate, and you hear somebody saying, yeah, man,

941
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 8: I ain't even voting.

942
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 3: Like, what's your straight up answer?

943
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 8: Not the I'm on a podium answer, but like, straight up,

944
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 8: how are you talking to your peers saying, my g

945
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 8: that ain't it?

946
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 3: What do you say?

947
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 16: Well, first off, I do give them that answer. Okay,

948
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 16: if you are going to go vote, make sure you

949
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 16: educate yourself and give them incentive of powering them with

950
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 16: that knowledge and not just like going again studying with

951
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 16: these bills and amendments actually mean read the language of it, but.

952
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 7: You're right.

953
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 16: But when you educate them on what is actually on

954
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 16: the ballot, like homestead and what does homestead actually mean

955
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 16: if you're looking to potentially be a homeowner eventually, what

956
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 16: does this mean to you? And actually connecting the amendments

957
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 16: to them and their actual reality. And if honestly, if

958
00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 16: they say I'm not going to vote, then I say,

959
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 16: check out my organ and our organization. We have a

960
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 16: garden here on Family's campus. We're mentoring at Family DRS.

961
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 16: This is weekly, so tomorrow we're going to be at

962
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 16: the garden and everything like that. So there's also proactive

963
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 16: ways besides just voting to change your community. And I

964
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 16: think that's what is more appealing to people at this hour,

965
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 16: is just self determination and self help and actually like

966
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,359
Speaker 16: building for themselves. We have a lot of I don't

967
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 16: mean to go on around or anything, but we have

968
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 16: a couple businesses within our organization. We have about ten

969
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 16: businesses within our organization, and one of them is right there.

970
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 16: She has a crochet clothing company called Noble Treasures. We

971
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 16: have another another member on the side, he has a

972
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 16: holistic healing company. So just yeah, teaching these students not

973
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 16: only just voting is a method, but going out and

974
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 16: doing something for yourself, creating a new reality shifting your

975
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 16: lifestyle so you can shift the entire paradigm in which we.

976
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 3: Live and how policy impacts small business owners.

977
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 16: That's ma'am.

978
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 13: Yes, ma'am, I love it.

979
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 5: I want to just quickly and I know we have

980
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 5: to let you go, Lauren. I know you're running today.

981
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 5: You have to squeeze us in, so we're grateful. I

982
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 5: want to just ask you really quickly, Jasmine. You talked

983
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 5: about a million vote different like a basically like a

984
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 5: gulf between progressives or Democratic leaning voters and Republicans.

985
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 6: What do you think it will take for that margin

986
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 6: to shift for Tuesday?

987
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 18: So we are in a state where I think you

988
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 18: already know project existence far before this document did, and

989
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 18: we have been living under a governorship for the past

990
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 18: five or six years where the reality is so bleak.

991
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 18: We have experienced multiple hurricanes, where insurance is an issue,

992
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:53,280
Speaker 18: housing is an issue. When this campaign talks about price gouging,

993
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 18: we're experiencing it as people are trying to escape to safety.

994
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 18: So this isn't something that they're reading in a document.

995
00:49:59,560 --> 00:49:59,919
Speaker 6: We're living.

996
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 18: We've been experiencing it for a really long time, and

997
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,439
Speaker 18: I think people are finally connecting the dots they see

998
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 18: who's in charge and who can make those decisions, and

999
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 18: they see that in our governor, who takes his decisions

1000
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 18: from a mega party extremist boss, which is you know,

1001
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 18: Donald Trump, and folks are making that connection and saying,

1002
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 18: this does not work for me anymore. This does not

1003
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 18: serve me, It does not serve my family. Unfortunately. It

1004
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,800
Speaker 18: takes natural disasters like that to impact people's lives in

1005
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 18: a real way. And it also takes ripping books out

1006
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 18: of schools, taking black history off of the curriculum, you know,

1007
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 18: attacking trans children, fighting immigration issues in other states where

1008
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:38,359
Speaker 18: people have issues here.

1009
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 4: We can't talk about.

1010
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,359
Speaker 18: Where money is going in other countries when we see

1011
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 18: the example of what our governor is doing by sending

1012
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 18: resources to other states when people can't escape here.

1013
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 6: And so that's what it takes.

1014
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 18: And I think folks again are seeing the difference with

1015
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 18: the levels of government and how.

1016
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 3: They are interconnected.

1017
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 18: And when you go to your ballot, this fall take

1018
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 18: into consideration that every single person that is on that

1019
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,359
Speaker 18: ballot us to work together from local all the way

1020
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 18: up to federal.

1021
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:04,720
Speaker 6: To get what we need in this community.

1022
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 16: Thank you so much, and honestly, I want to give

1023
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 16: Lauren her flowers as well, or we brought the mayor

1024
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 16: of Tallahassee uh this semester, and you know, this is

1025
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 16: our second year doing it, and just continue to having

1026
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 16: that engagement from the local level. I think that's a

1027
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 16: great point in just you know, making sure they understand, Uh,

1028
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 16: this is a bottom up situation where it starts locally

1029
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 16: and it works its way up.

1030
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 6: Absolutely absolutely no shade.

1031
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 3: But I only know one mayor of Tallahassee.

1032
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 7: Bring.

1033
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 6: I don't know a man.

1034
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 19: Thank you so much.

1035
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 6: Get enjoy homecoming.

1036
00:51:39,600 --> 00:52:00,240
Speaker 4: Jes Oh, the Lord is mild on us with some clouds.

1037
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 3: Because it's all them all over the country.

1038
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 6: Shout out to the small business.

1039
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 3: Hundred degrees out here.

1040
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:11,399
Speaker 6: We got Disney meeting, y'all.

1041
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying that my I'm most excited

1042
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 3: about Desmond meeting.

1043
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 6: Oh just forget everybody else.

1044
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 8: I'm happy about everybody else, but but Desmond Meat has

1045
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 8: done the Lord's work. So this this year in Florida,

1046
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 8: Amendment four is about abortion. But you all will recall

1047
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 8: uh years ago twenty eighteen, Amendment Florida was about restoring

1048
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:34,800
Speaker 8: voting rights for formerly incarcerated people who are returning citizens,

1049
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 8: and desneh mean led that work for the state of Florida,

1050
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 8: but also the work that he did here cast a

1051
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:43,800
Speaker 8: wide net influence across the country and even today, millions

1052
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 8: of people remained disenfranchised because of the time. And not

1053
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 8: only were you leading that work, but you became an

1054
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 8: attorney while incarcerated.

1055
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 3: So brother, you know we love you.

1056
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:56,839
Speaker 20: We thank y'all so much for having me. I missed

1057
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 20: this for the world. I drove three and a half

1058
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:02,439
Speaker 20: hours forget yeah, hang out with y'all for a couple

1059
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 20: of minutes.

1060
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,239
Speaker 6: I wanted him to have his own time for a

1061
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 6: little bit.

1062
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 5: We're gonna bring him some panelists too, but I wanted

1063
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 5: there's a special, unique spiritual connection between these two because

1064
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 5: of the time on the ballot together and.

1065
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:17,399
Speaker 7: I us one.

1066
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 6: I'm gonna make it.

1067
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 1: But in truth, I would love for you to just

1068
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:28,240
Speaker 1: update our viewers nationally on since the passage of Amendment

1069
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: for Desmond. They know that they heard some wrangling in

1070
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: the legislature and the governor around its interpretation. Where do

1071
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 1: we sit today as a result of that, And obviously

1072
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: that goes without saying how proud we are of you,

1073
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 1: the amendment and the voters of Florida who tried to

1074
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 1: you know, who tried to change the law make it right.

1075
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 11: Well, Andrew, I'm glad you used that word nationally.

1076
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 7: Right.

1077
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 20: So, first of all, you know, since the passages of

1078
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 20: Amendment for we know, the Florida legislature had implemented the

1079
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 20: law that basically made people have to pay outstanding legal

1080
00:53:58,200 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 20: financial obligations.

1081
00:53:59,280 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 11: Right.

1082
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 20: But the problem was was that when people would go

1083
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 20: to the state and say, well how much I owe,

1084
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 20: the state was like, well, I don't know, right, And

1085
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,880
Speaker 20: that has been a consistent problem. And you know, over

1086
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 20: the last couple of years you've even seen people getting arrested,

1087
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 20: which was problematic because everyone that got arrested, even the

1088
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:19,320
Speaker 20: women in Texas, they all had one thing in common.

1089
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 11: You know what it was?

1090
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 20: They were all issued a voter identification card by the state.

1091
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 20: And if you can't rely on the state to determine

1092
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 20: for the eligibility, then who can.

1093
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 11: You rely on?

1094
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 20: And so we end up having to file a lawsuit

1095
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 20: against the entire state of Florida, and I'm talking about

1096
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,280
Speaker 20: the entire state over two hundred and sixty seven plaintiffs,

1097
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,320
Speaker 20: I mean defendants. We have wow, right, and as a

1098
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:43,800
Speaker 20: result of their lawsuit, the state is now finalizing some

1099
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 20: policy changes that would allow anyone, if they have any

1100
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 20: doubts about their voter eligibility to actually find out within

1101
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 20: a certain amount of time.

1102
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 11: Or it is presumed that they're eligible to vote. So

1103
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 11: we're keeping our fingers crossed on this.

1104
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 20: But why I like what you said about the national

1105
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 20: because one of the reasons I was excited to come

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Speaker 20: on this show because I know you guys have a

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Speaker 20: reach that is nationwide. Right, is that what I'm excited

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Speaker 20: about is related to Amendment. For because in every battleground state,

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Speaker 20: key states right now, in this election, impacted people like

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Speaker 20: me are returning. Citizens like me are four to ten

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00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 20: times the margin of victory in the last presidential election.

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Speaker 20: For instance, in Georgia, which was won by a little

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Speaker 20: over eleven thousand votes, they're over eight hundred thousand people

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00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 20: in Georgia where the previous felony conviction who are elgib

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00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 20: with the vote. Wow, right, same thing in North Carolina.

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00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:40,439
Speaker 20: In North Carolina it was won by seventy thousand votes.

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Speaker 20: There's four hundred and eighty one thousand eligible people right now,

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00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 20: and they can register the vote all the way up

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Speaker 20: to tomorrow. And yeah, same thing in Wisconsin, in Michigan,

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Speaker 20: in Philadelphia, it's the same thing. Hundreds of thousands more

1121
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 20: people who've been impacted by the criminal justice system can

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Speaker 20: have a significant role in this election.

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Speaker 11: And it's not too late for people.

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Speaker 20: In Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Arizona, in Nevada, and even

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Speaker 20: in Minnesota and in Virginia, because people can register the

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Speaker 20: vote all the way up to the election day. Yes,

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00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,839
Speaker 20: and so we definitely, I definitely want to be able

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Speaker 20: to get the word out to let people know that

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Speaker 20: just because you've been impacted, just because you've been arrested

1130
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 20: or have a felony conviction, that doesn't mean that you

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00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:28,360
Speaker 20: can't have a say in the direction that this country

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Speaker 20: go in after November fifth, Right, and folks need to

1133
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 20: know that because there's over nineteen million people across the

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Speaker 20: country who.

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00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:37,399
Speaker 11: Are else with the vote, they think they can't vote,

1136
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Speaker 11: are too scared to vote.

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Speaker 8: Well, this is just the first first step really in

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00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 8: restoring a very punishing criminal justice system, particularly when it

1139
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:46,919
Speaker 8: comes to black men. I'm not leaving out black women,

1140
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:50,480
Speaker 8: but people of color are disproportionately harmed by the current

1141
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 8: criminal justice system. What is your ass once Vice President

1142
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,440
Speaker 8: Harris becomes President elect. Harris, what is your ask of

1143
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 8: this administration to really remap I.

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00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:02,919
Speaker 11: Love your positive and forward things.

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Speaker 16: First of all, if I were to give an ask,

1146
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 16: I would get rid of this first, right, and I

1147
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 16: put this on.

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Speaker 11: And basically what that say is f the F word, right,

1149
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 11: because for too long that F word is just like

1150
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 11: the N word. Right.

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00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 20: For too long we've used that word to marginalize people, right,

1152
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 20: and it is stuck with them as a scholar, that

1153
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 20: of shame for all of their lives. Somebody may have

1154
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:33,959
Speaker 20: done something twenty thirty years ago. I mean, look, last

1155
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 20: year my organization was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Right,

1156
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:40,920
Speaker 20: so now I'm a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. I am

1157
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 20: time one hundred most influential. I'm MacArthur genius for the really.

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Speaker 6: Another year, and I still have to go by that

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00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 6: F work with people fur me and.

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Speaker 7: So we have to start there.

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Speaker 20: So that would be one of the things is that

1162
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 20: do not you have to take a more humane approach

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Speaker 20: to criminal justice and people who've been impacted by the

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Speaker 20: criminal justice.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, So I just I want our viewers to know

1166
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 8: because they probably can't hear and the music isn't coming

1167
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 8: through the mic. But if you're listening to us or

1168
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 8: watching at home, it's very loud here on the ground.

1169
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Speaker 3: I know you guys hear us at home.

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Speaker 8: Trying to speak loud, but I really appreciate it anyway,

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Speaker 8: I really appreciate what you said, because that's such an

1172
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 8: important issue around reframing. A lot of people don't even

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00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 8: know how to talk about it themselves. So we hear

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00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 8: our own people saying felon or for former felon. So

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00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 8: we try to reintroduce language returning citizens formally.

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Speaker 11: In justice impact of people, you know what. A lot

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Speaker 11: of people can normalize the end word as well, like yo,

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00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 11: my end, what's up?

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Speaker 7: You know?

1180
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 11: Yeah, we even turned it into a term of endearment.

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Speaker 20: But the reality is is that the origin of that

1182
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 20: word is meant to be dehumanizing to someone else, right

1183
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:55,800
Speaker 20: and and and here's the catch that if we if

1184
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 20: we understand the the human nation aspect of it, the

1185
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Speaker 20: humanizing aspect of it, then that means that we should

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Speaker 20: not use that word, even for our enemies. To be

1187
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Speaker 20: totally honest with you, Well, so hire was a problem.

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Speaker 20: Let me tell you what the problem was they jumped

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Speaker 20: the gun because technically, at the time when they started

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Speaker 20: using the F word on him, he was not that

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Speaker 20: he was found guilty of a couple of charges. Now

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00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 20: here's the thing that he have a ton of other

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00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 20: outstanding charges out there.

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Speaker 11: So he's currently under criminal investigation.

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Speaker 20: Right at the time that the jury filed them guilty,

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Speaker 20: they found him guilty of a couple of charges, but

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Speaker 20: there wasn't an adjudication of guilt, right, and there wasn't

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Speaker 20: a finding of guilt yet, you know, And so until

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Speaker 20: that happens, technically he's not He is just a person

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Speaker 20: that was convicted by a jury, but that has not

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Speaker 20: finalized yet, and so we kind of like jumped the

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Speaker 20: gun on that. That was unfortunate because even when I

1203
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Speaker 20: was looking at the first debate with President Biden, when

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Speaker 20: he used that F word, it had much vendom behind it.

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Speaker 11: I felt like he was talking to me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I felt it.

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Speaker 20: And it's just like having that white friend that's cool

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Speaker 20: with you all these years and one day somebody black

1209
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:10,000
Speaker 20: pists them off and that it worked come out of

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Speaker 20: his mouth.

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Speaker 7: Start, man, I'm wonder how many times he said that

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Speaker 7: about Yeah, another ed word.

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Speaker 6: We can use to describe him.

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Speaker 7: It's called fraud.

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Speaker 2: Fraud.

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Speaker 6: So I know that we have some other guests that

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Speaker 6: are joining us to state place Dans.

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Speaker 7: But you gotta give your stuff. Okay, I want you.

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Speaker 1: You'll be joined now by two Uh yeah, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: other individuals who are one important in this state but

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Speaker 1: also important in this election cycle. I want to invite

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Speaker 1: Shawn and kimber come on up.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And approaching the podium now is u Kim Rivers who

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Speaker 1: owns truly did you see those signs to leave medical

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Speaker 1: marijuana distributor distributorships here in town and around the state,

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Speaker 1: really around the country. This is its owner and chair

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Speaker 1: of the board. Also former SGA president of Florida State University.

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Speaker 7: That is this poetic?

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Speaker 11: Or what right? Everybody's been impacted?

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Speaker 3: How many people are finding bars?

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Speaker 1: That's right? Yes? And next to Kim is is political strategist, lobbyist, lawyer, uh,

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Speaker 1: my former finance chairman and my race for governor of

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Speaker 1: the State of Florida.

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Speaker 7: Good friend.

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Speaker 1: And now we add to it author Sean Pittman, who

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Speaker 1: is face here at Tallahassee but a great supporter of

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Speaker 1: the show and and awesome, awesome, strategist. You want them

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Speaker 1: on your side.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for introducing me, my new mess friends in

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Speaker 3: the middle.

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Speaker 21: Okay, yes, right.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk after this show.

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Speaker 6: I love that.

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Speaker 8: You champion the issue I care very deeply about. So

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Speaker 8: welcome home, y'all, thanks for being here. I hope the

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Speaker 8: audience can hear. Can you guys here okay? Okay, good,

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01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 8: So they're good. You guys are good. The audience at

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Speaker 8: home can here because we're.

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Speaker 4: In the you can't hear, I can't hear you?

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01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:05,400
Speaker 3: Okay, can you hear the guest? Okay, yes, yes, okay,

1252
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 3: so everybody can hear. So we're good with the with

1253
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Speaker 3: with this. But it's it is.

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Speaker 8: I want the viewers and know it is popping live

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Speaker 8: and popping here on campus and so much music. But

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Speaker 8: let's let's get into this because I'm really I do

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Speaker 8: want to talk kickoff with the issue of marijuana. One,

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Speaker 8: why is that your issue? And too, how are you

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Speaker 8: connecting accessibility and a lot of the legalizations. We see

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Speaker 8: who's making money off of it and who's not, and

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Speaker 8: the people who are most impacted by the criminal justices

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Speaker 8: inside of marijuana are not making money from it. But

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Speaker 8: BC's venture capitalists private equity. These are the people who

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Speaker 8: are profiting. So would love your thoughts on that. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: thanks for having me.

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Speaker 22: And Amendment three is really about, first and foremost, we've

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Speaker 22: got to stop the madness. It is time that we

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Speaker 22: stop putting people in jail and and targeting and profiling

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Speaker 22: and arresting thoks for marijuana. And here in the state

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Speaker 22: of Florida, we have got in Florida, and I know

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Speaker 22: Andrew can talk about this at length, but we've got

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Speaker 22: a checkerboard of enforcement regimes across the state. And so

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Speaker 22: you know, you could be in one place and maybe

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Speaker 22: it's a civil citation, but you cross that border into

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Speaker 22: the next county and not only are you getting arrested,

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01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:16,800
Speaker 22: but you're going to jail. And so we've got we've

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Speaker 22: got to even the playing field here and create a

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01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 22: bright line so that we stop again arresting people ruining

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Speaker 22: people's lives over a plant. So that's that's number one,

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Speaker 22: and that's really I'm very very passionate about that. We've

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Speaker 22: done spongement clinics across the state of Florida and across

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Speaker 22: the country, and we know and we see firsthand that

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Speaker 22: it's very difficult to recover and they've done that intentionally,

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Speaker 22: candidly to make it really hard for people to come

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Speaker 22: back from just a possession charge. Right, you can't get

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01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 22: a job, you can't get employed. So number one, number two,

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Speaker 22: we need to create an environment.

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Speaker 3: Where adults, responsible adults.

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Speaker 22: Over the age of twenty one have the freedom to

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Speaker 22: make a personal choice on a product that's safer than

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Speaker 22: alcohol in the privacy of their own home.

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Speaker 3: So it's a personal freedom, you know amendment as well.

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Speaker 3: And what we know is that there are.

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Speaker 22: Products right now that are in our communities that are dangerous,

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Speaker 22: that are laced with a lot of different substances. In

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Speaker 22: some cases, in gats In County, we had nine individuals

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Speaker 22: die over a weekend over a.

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Speaker 3: Bad batch of weed. It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 22: And we have an opportunity now to make sure that

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Speaker 22: people and adults have access to smart, safe, regulated product

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Speaker 22: here in.

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Speaker 3: The state of Florida.

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Speaker 22: Now, to answer your question directly, you know, the state

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Speaker 22: of Florida has been It is an interesting landscape right now,

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01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 22: right and I'm not here to tell you any differently.

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Speaker 22: There's twenty five companies currently that are licensed.

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Speaker 3: Sitting on the Governor's desk.

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Speaker 22: Is another twenty Two, we fought really really hard to

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Speaker 22: make sure that in those licenses that there's a class

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Speaker 22: of farmers here called the Pigford licenses that are our

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01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:53,960
Speaker 22: African American farm owners who were initially not able to

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Speaker 22: participate in the licensing arena. We have fought really really

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Speaker 22: hard to make sure that there is licenses now that

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Speaker 22: have been and are being issued for that class's five.

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Speaker 22: So of those current licenses, five specifically are allocated for

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Speaker 22: for you know, black businesses that have had agriculture and candidly,

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Speaker 22: we're you know, disenfranchised a long time ago, and I

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Speaker 22: think that's the right thing to do here, and that's

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Speaker 22: what we've done.

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Speaker 3: Now, they're still room for improvement.

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Speaker 22: So we also give the legislature and ability to issue

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Speaker 22: new licenses and so there can be a whole new

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Speaker 22: licensing regime. So the idea here is that this is

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Speaker 22: a market expander to bring more opportunity to the state.

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Speaker 3: In addition the tax revenue, this is going to.

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Speaker 22: Generate four hundred million dollars every year that we can

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Speaker 22: generate back into our communities to make sure that we're

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Speaker 22: doing right by those communities that have been the most

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Speaker 22: impacted by this crazy war on drugs that candidly has

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Speaker 22: gone on way too long.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But the savings that the system will experience by

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Speaker 1: not Desmond you know as well, Yeah, I prosecuting in

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01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:52,600
Speaker 1: the dial system.

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Speaker 23: You're talking about over two hundred million dollars a loan,

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01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:57,080
Speaker 23: say save to tax visions.

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Speaker 11: Well, absolutely, I think it's it's I think it's far

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01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:01,640
Speaker 11: more than that, right. And the reason why I've say

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01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:02,880
Speaker 11: that is that you're.

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01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:05,920
Speaker 20: Talking about to You're talking about two hundred million that

1340
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 20: the state will saved just from prosecuting. But the state

1341
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 20: loses over forty billion dollars a year and lost income

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Speaker 20: from people that get these type of convictions, and so

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01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:20,280
Speaker 20: that the cost goes on and on. But listen, I

1344
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:22,960
Speaker 20: like that question, and I have to say that traditionally,

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01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 20: you know, one of the challenges that we've had nationally

1346
01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 20: is that the people who have been getting arrested and

1347
01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 20: getting these convictions, right, they are barred from profiting from

1348
01:06:35,640 --> 01:06:39,600
Speaker 20: you know, recreational marijuana. However, there is a glimmer of hope,

1349
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:42,640
Speaker 20: right because I remember not too long ago when our

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01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 20: current governor had raised his hand on the debate stage

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01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 20: and said that he would support voting for someone for

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01:06:49,680 --> 01:06:51,720
Speaker 20: the office of president of the United States with a

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01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:54,960
Speaker 20: felony conviction. And so what I'm thinking that if you

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01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 20: would support someone with a felty conviction being president of

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01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 20: the United States, then you shouldn't have any problem supporting

1356
01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:05,120
Speaker 20: someone with the felony convictions who's turned their life around

1357
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:06,480
Speaker 20: being able to.

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01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:09,280
Speaker 11: Profit off of this in the past. Yeah, point blank.

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01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 11: You're able to get jobs and housing the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Because it makes economic sense, it makes community, I think,

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01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:22,000
Speaker 1: value sense, and the regulatory regime, however restricted now as

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01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:24,920
Speaker 1: it expands, can be inclusive of the communities who have

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01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:28,480
Speaker 1: sat at the epicenter of the worst impacts from the

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01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 1: War on drugs at this country has waged against them. Sean,

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Speaker 1: You've obviously been in the state through democratic regimes as

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01:07:36,360 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 1: well as Republican regimes, which has been you know, frankly,

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01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:43,440
Speaker 1: the majority of your professional career has been under that one.

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01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:47,720
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, as we raise voters and turn voters

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01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:50,440
Speaker 1: out in this upcoming election, what hope do people have

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01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 1: around the change that they can experience at the state

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01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:55,600
Speaker 1: level here, Because regardless of who we elect for president,

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Speaker 1: which is eminently important, we still live in the state

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01:07:58,520 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 1: of Florida. Under what already fe like Donald Trump's America.

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01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 1: He lives here one, but he's got a sycophant in

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01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:07,440
Speaker 1: the current governor who is attempting every day to outdo

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01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:11,360
Speaker 1: his right lead. Those are my words, not yours. You

1377
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 1: got to do business in this state tomorrow. Yeah, But

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01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 1: my question is is what do Florida voters have by

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01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:17,760
Speaker 1: way of a motivation of turning out?

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Speaker 23: Listen, you just talked about one and Amendment three, right,

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01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 23: I mean, And one of the things I talk about

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01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,280
Speaker 23: in my book This Affected is you know, what are

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01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 23: we pretending not to know as folks that are stakeholders

1384
01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:31,960
Speaker 23: involved in government and politics and all of that. And

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01:08:32,320 --> 01:08:34,080
Speaker 23: one of the things we pretend not to know is

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01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:37,519
Speaker 23: when there are issues like Amendment three and Amendment four

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01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:42,240
Speaker 23: that we have an opportunity to make like revolutionary change.

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01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 23: We got to lead with those things, and we got

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01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:47,880
Speaker 23: to give people the opportunity to show up for them, right.

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01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 23: And the other thing we got to do is manage

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01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:52,559
Speaker 23: the expectations of our elector.

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Speaker 10: Right.

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01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:55,920
Speaker 11: Too many times they think if I do this, it

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01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:56,479
Speaker 11: means this.

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01:08:56,680 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 23: Tomorrow doesn't always mean that we would make voting today

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01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 23: our modern day bus boycott where we sacrifice, knowing that

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01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:10,560
Speaker 23: it may take some time. We would, we would, we

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01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 23: would make the kind of change not just nationally, but

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01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:15,800
Speaker 23: locally where it hits home.

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Speaker 11: You are a mayor.

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01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:18,599
Speaker 23: You know the kind of things you can do as

1402
01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 23: a mayor statewide. We can't make them think that if

1403
01:09:23,320 --> 01:09:26,080
Speaker 23: this person gets in office tomorrow, that's going to change

1404
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:28,479
Speaker 23: their lives. What we have to do is make them

1405
01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 23: realize that you're not just doing it for yourself. You're

1406
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:33,640
Speaker 23: doing it for your kids and your grandkids. And we

1407
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 23: got to create that muscle memory, that voting sacred right.

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01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 23: But at the end of the day, it is the

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01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 23: modern day bus boycott, and it is the thing, the

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01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 23: only thing that's going to get us down the road

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01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 23: in a position where we really feel that change. We

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01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:51,280
Speaker 23: got to manage that expectation.

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01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:53,559
Speaker 5: Sorry, I'm doing this because I can't hear on my headphones,

1414
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:55,000
Speaker 5: but we're about to adjust that. As soon as this

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01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:58,080
Speaker 5: panel's over, Desmond, I want to ask you if you

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01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:02,720
Speaker 5: can share any best practices for these lovely folks who

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01:10:02,760 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 5: have an initiative on the ballot and other folks throughout

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01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:08,160
Speaker 5: states all over the country that are thinking about what

1419
01:10:08,320 --> 01:10:10,840
Speaker 5: they can do to change their communities their states to

1420
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:12,719
Speaker 5: ensure that ballot initiatives pass.

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01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:14,679
Speaker 6: You're a victor, so what do you recommend?

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01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:23,320
Speaker 11: What's the game? It's still a lot of people that

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01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:26,479
Speaker 11: So there's two things.

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01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:30,800
Speaker 20: One is Behindsight twenty twenty that you know what we've seen,

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01:10:30,920 --> 01:10:34,080
Speaker 20: especially in the state of Florida. Right is typically the

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01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:39,559
Speaker 20: second greatest display of democracy. Right, it's actually a citizens

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01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:43,120
Speaker 20: and the first is voting. The second is when the citizens,

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01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:47,439
Speaker 20: who all power belong to to begin with, right, decides

1429
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:49,400
Speaker 20: to take matters in their own hand in the form

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01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:52,360
Speaker 20: of a citizen's initiative, to say this is what we

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01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:56,120
Speaker 20: as citizens want. What's troubling in the state of Florida

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01:10:56,200 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 20: is that they have a history of disregarding what the

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01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:04,440
Speaker 20: citizens want and they feel that, well, we are the politician,

1434
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:06,519
Speaker 20: we know what's best for you, so we just need

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01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:09,040
Speaker 20: you to shut up and just do what we tell

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01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,320
Speaker 20: you to do. And it's gotten so bad that now

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01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:16,479
Speaker 20: you have tax payers dollars being used to fight against

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01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:19,640
Speaker 20: what the citizens wanted. I was fortunate enough that no

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01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:21,840
Speaker 20: one fought against it, maybe because I ran a great

1440
01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:24,519
Speaker 20: campaign right, which I do believe I did. You did

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01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:29,560
Speaker 20: right to actually preempt that kind of actually, but what

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01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 20: I didn't or wasn't able to prey up was the

1443
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 20: backlash that came afterwards. And so my advice is is that, yes,

1444
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 20: you need to be strategic to win, but you also

1445
01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:42,080
Speaker 20: have to be more strategic to protect the win.

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01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:44,640
Speaker 11: That's going to be extremely important.

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01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 3: So important though.

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01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:49,760
Speaker 11: I agree, I.

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01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:51,360
Speaker 1: Wanted to ask you all giving you an expense on

1450
01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:52,840
Speaker 1: these initiatives that I know We've got to move to

1451
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:55,639
Speaker 1: the next panel is what do you fear for access

1452
01:11:55,720 --> 01:12:00,400
Speaker 1: to the ballot following your amendments through citizen initiated process.

1453
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:02,960
Speaker 1: You anticipate that there's gonna be a clap back and

1454
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:07,320
Speaker 1: really directly because you still got one that needs to

1455
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:10,680
Speaker 1: be passed. Is how it is that you can'tpaign for

1456
01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 1: an initiative that may be more effective than how you

1457
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:16,759
Speaker 1: might for a candidate, or are there similarities that could.

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01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:21,519
Speaker 20: Listen candidates is entirely different than in this entirely different,

1459
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:24,679
Speaker 20: you know, I think the candidates is more narrowly focused.

1460
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:28,839
Speaker 20: And unfortunately, because of just who we are as a society,

1461
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:31,880
Speaker 20: we have gotten to the point of where we are

1462
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:34,880
Speaker 20: where we are with our candidates and and let's be real,

1463
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:38,479
Speaker 20: you know, not everybody is excited about the candidates. They're

1464
01:12:38,479 --> 01:12:42,360
Speaker 20: excited about the moment, right, but not necessarily about the candidates.

1465
01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:45,240
Speaker 20: But when you're talking about an initiative, you're talking about

1466
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 20: something that speaks directly the people's heart in regardless of

1467
01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:55,840
Speaker 20: their political affiliation, regardless of their ethnic background or economic status.

1468
01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 20: They were speaking to everyone, and that makes it a

1469
01:12:58,840 --> 01:12:59,879
Speaker 20: little bit more powerful.

1470
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:01,639
Speaker 11: Dani. If a candidate whether we're.

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01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:02,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would just add right that.

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01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:04,920
Speaker 22: I mean, what we tell folks is, look, I mean

1473
01:13:04,960 --> 01:13:07,800
Speaker 22: it certainly, you know it's our it's our civic responsibility

1474
01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:10,200
Speaker 22: and our privilege right to be able to exercise our

1475
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:12,519
Speaker 22: voice and to vote. And you vote for candidates, but

1476
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:14,439
Speaker 22: you just kind of you hope that the candidate is

1477
01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:16,360
Speaker 22: going to do what you what you want them to do.

1478
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:16,720
Speaker 7: Right.

1479
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:22,200
Speaker 22: A citizen ballot initiative is our most direct way that

1480
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:25,680
Speaker 22: we can we can impact our communities, right, and so

1481
01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:27,800
Speaker 22: we are talking about the citizens in the state of Florida,

1482
01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:30,320
Speaker 22: as an example, have an opportunity to mark a mark

1483
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:32,479
Speaker 22: a bubble on their ballot sheet that is going to

1484
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 22: directly stop people from going to jail. Like that is

1485
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:39,080
Speaker 22: what we're talking about in a very literal way here.

1486
01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:41,720
Speaker 22: And that's why I think that right it is. It

1487
01:13:41,840 --> 01:13:44,959
Speaker 22: is different because it is our opportunity to directly influence

1488
01:13:45,040 --> 01:13:48,200
Speaker 22: the process and demand that something gets done that the

1489
01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 22: citizens are behind and that we're we're and we're advocating for.

1490
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 23: And you position it also right for the next step, right,

1491
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:58,160
Speaker 23: you give incentive to our lawmakers to then do that

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01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:01,200
Speaker 23: right thing about folks who have all already been uh

1493
01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:05,000
Speaker 23: in trouble, have it on their record. Expungement becomes a

1494
01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:08,439
Speaker 23: word that everybody understands after the point that Amendment three

1495
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:12,799
Speaker 23: gets passed, Because if I'm a lawmaker, my next thing is, Okay,

1496
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:14,599
Speaker 23: how do we deal with these people who have been

1497
01:14:14,680 --> 01:14:15,560
Speaker 23: in trouble.

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01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 7: For small amounts a week?

1499
01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:17,519
Speaker 1: Right?

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01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:19,519
Speaker 23: We got to get that stuff off their record and

1501
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:21,400
Speaker 23: and help them help them with their lives.

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01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:23,879
Speaker 3: Can I asked us a quick closing question.

1503
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:30,240
Speaker 8: For for somebody who's visiting Florida and you want to

1504
01:14:30,479 --> 01:14:33,920
Speaker 8: sample Florida's offerings, what might you.

1505
01:14:36,120 --> 01:14:37,120
Speaker 3: You know talk about it?

1506
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:41,160
Speaker 6: After that?

1507
01:14:41,320 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 13: Was that was a set up question there?

1508
01:14:56,200 --> 01:15:14,840
Speaker 8: Thank you, we have Frederick Ingram and then come on

1509
01:15:15,040 --> 01:15:20,160
Speaker 8: up man, I'm sorry, really quick, we need to come

1510
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:24,160
Speaker 8: on up and make your way up here. We lie brother,

1511
01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:29,840
Speaker 8: all right, Fan makes his way up here. Frederick Ingram

1512
01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:31,799
Speaker 8: is the president, the Florida President.

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01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:34,680
Speaker 3: Hi, you pled me.

1514
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:38,760
Speaker 1: He's telling you maybe you can't use a certain title. Man,

1515
01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:42,160
Speaker 1: We don't introduce you with your title. Former president of

1516
01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:45,919
Speaker 1: the Teachers Union in Miami Dade. He got elected president

1517
01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:49,800
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen of the state wide Teachers.

1518
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:54,360
Speaker 8: Association Federation of Teachers, No in Florida Teachers and.

1519
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:58,120
Speaker 3: Any right in Florida when.

1520
01:15:58,040 --> 01:15:59,920
Speaker 6: He almost got fired because I saw it, this hot

1521
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:00,640
Speaker 6: had a head on.

1522
01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:01,120
Speaker 3: At first.

1523
01:16:01,120 --> 01:16:04,880
Speaker 6: I didn't see make America normal rally.

1524
01:16:05,320 --> 01:16:06,240
Speaker 7: You had the wrong.

1525
01:16:06,200 --> 01:16:07,559
Speaker 1: Rally, got the right share.

1526
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:07,960
Speaker 21: There you go.

1527
01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:14,880
Speaker 1: Of course, Nicky Free who is the chairwoman of the

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01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:17,400
Speaker 1: Florida Democratic Party here in Florida.

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01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:20,320
Speaker 3: And you're at this point, well that.

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01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:24,000
Speaker 1: Too, just on the map quite often. But she's also

1531
01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:26,960
Speaker 1: been fighting fiercely in a state that has tried to

1532
01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: not only silence Democrats but have us to disappear and

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01:16:31,479 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 1: every way in the society. And so I think you

1534
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:36,679
Speaker 1: want to give it up to you for the thankless

1535
01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:39,280
Speaker 1: and hard for work you all do every day.

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01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:41,400
Speaker 14: Thank you and thank you so much for having me

1537
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:41,880
Speaker 14: up here.

1538
01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:43,360
Speaker 6: And first I got to do a shout out.

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01:16:43,640 --> 01:16:46,560
Speaker 24: There's no other post fam you student body president that

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01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:49,080
Speaker 24: can get a cat student body president.

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01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:52,120
Speaker 4: All to be on here on stage.

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01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:58,000
Speaker 1: There it issident University of Florida where I graduated high school.

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01:16:58,160 --> 01:16:58,400
Speaker 6: Nikki.

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01:16:58,439 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 3: I feel like every time your governor here, Governor Ron's.

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01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:04,519
Speaker 12: Not my governor.

1546
01:17:04,840 --> 01:17:05,439
Speaker 3: Rand is stupid?

1547
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:05,720
Speaker 7: Is that.

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01:17:07,280 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 8: Every time he does something, I feel like you're the

1549
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:11,040
Speaker 8: first person we hear from on a national Stage's like,

1550
01:17:11,080 --> 01:17:12,680
Speaker 8: you come out and you're really good at being on

1551
01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:16,240
Speaker 8: the front lines. What is keeping you up at night

1552
01:17:16,479 --> 01:17:19,080
Speaker 8: when it comes to this Tuesday as it relates to

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01:17:19,160 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 8: the state of Florida.

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01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:22,000
Speaker 24: There's a lot of things actually that keep me up

1555
01:17:22,080 --> 01:17:24,120
Speaker 24: and also get me up in the morning. A lot

1556
01:17:24,240 --> 01:17:28,120
Speaker 24: is voter suppression. A voter suppression that we've seen consistently

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01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:32,200
Speaker 24: since he became governor for six years. Everything between access

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01:17:32,240 --> 01:17:35,799
Speaker 24: to the ballot box, the drop boxes you all remember

1559
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:40,439
Speaker 24: last last Yeah, the machetes, Yeah, the people that are

1560
01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:43,519
Speaker 24: coming out with the big trucks, and the intimidation at

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01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:44,799
Speaker 24: the polls that are making.

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01:17:44,640 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 6: People scared to be there.

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01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:46,280
Speaker 7: Yeah.

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01:17:46,439 --> 01:17:49,240
Speaker 24: But it's also you're just talking about it with Desmond

1565
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:53,600
Speaker 24: fifty million dollars that the governor has stolen from the

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01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:56,760
Speaker 24: people to put out there against the citizens' initiatives.

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01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:00,559
Speaker 14: That is miskeueuing information that is going out people.

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01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:02,760
Speaker 24: So that's what's keeping me up and making sure that

1569
01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:05,479
Speaker 24: you know, what I've said consistently for the last few

1570
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:07,720
Speaker 24: months is that we have seen that we have been

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01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:09,600
Speaker 24: the lab racks of Project twenty twenty five for the

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01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:13,640
Speaker 24: last six years. And if we don't vote, then we

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01:18:13,760 --> 01:18:16,719
Speaker 24: say that's okay, and that keep going for another two years.

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01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:19,600
Speaker 3: So we got to make sure that we are doing everything.

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01:18:19,360 --> 01:18:21,080
Speaker 24: Possible to turn out our vote in this election.

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01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:25,160
Speaker 21: Questioning prediction, fed oh, my prediction, Kamala Harris is gonna

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01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:25,880
Speaker 21: be our next president.

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01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 1: It is help.

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01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:28,160
Speaker 3: It's Florida gonna be blue.

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01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:30,760
Speaker 7: This same absolutely gonna help. Florida is not dead.

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01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:32,639
Speaker 21: We got a lot of people who care about everything

1582
01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:35,160
Speaker 21: that's going on, and listen. Shout out to my colleagues,

1583
01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:38,200
Speaker 21: the teachers, the teachers that are doing God's work every day.

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01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:41,320
Speaker 21: They're taken care of two million children in this state

1585
01:18:41,560 --> 01:18:45,560
Speaker 21: and fifty million children nationwide. In spite of being defunded,

1586
01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 21: in spite of being villainized, in spite of having librarians

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01:18:48,400 --> 01:18:51,400
Speaker 21: taken away from us, in spite of having fewer resources

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01:18:51,439 --> 01:18:54,280
Speaker 21: in our classrooms, we are still going to teach. We're

1589
01:18:54,320 --> 01:18:57,719
Speaker 21: gonna teach honest history. We're gonna teach the good culture

1590
01:18:57,800 --> 01:19:00,920
Speaker 21: that we see at this HBCU, at fans. That's what

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01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:03,639
Speaker 21: we need to be teaching black excellence because we've always

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01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:03,960
Speaker 21: had it.

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01:19:04,200 --> 01:19:07,360
Speaker 7: And so I am eternally optimistic, like every teacher is.

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01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:09,639
Speaker 7: At beginning in the school year. We think we can teach.

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01:19:09,479 --> 01:19:11,439
Speaker 21: Every kid how to read and every kid how to

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01:19:11,479 --> 01:19:13,880
Speaker 21: do math, because that's what we do that And if

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01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 21: you give us the right resources, get out of our way,

1598
01:19:16,320 --> 01:19:19,160
Speaker 21: protect us through public policy, we will continue to do

1599
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:20,960
Speaker 21: the magic that we need in our public schools.

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01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:25,040
Speaker 3: Policy that doesn't impact the classrooms. Every piece of policy,

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01:19:25,240 --> 01:19:26,360
Speaker 3: every policy that's.

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01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 21: Right, you know, and if we want to continue to

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01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:30,600
Speaker 21: see stuff like FAM you and FAM Youth's homecoming, you know,

1604
01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 21: we can't make light of this kind of stuff, right

1605
01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:34,920
Speaker 21: These kids come from K twelve public schools.

1606
01:19:35,160 --> 01:19:36,800
Speaker 7: These are the best purprisers.

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01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:36,680
Speaker 11: That we have.

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01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:38,840
Speaker 7: And we need more of these folks, and we need

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01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:40,439
Speaker 7: more public policy that's.

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01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:43,080
Speaker 21: Going to protect what we have in our classrooms and

1611
01:19:43,280 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 21: our teachers, and we need to get more about black

1612
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 21: men in our classrooms because they're not going into the

1613
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:51,880
Speaker 21: classroom because they don't pay well. They're not going into

1614
01:19:51,920 --> 01:19:53,800
Speaker 21: the classroom because why would you go back to a

1615
01:19:53,840 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 21: place that treated you in the wrong way?

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01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:57,280
Speaker 7: Why would you go back to that.

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01:19:57,560 --> 01:19:59,519
Speaker 21: So we need to change our system so that we

1618
01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:01,719
Speaker 21: can change our people and we can help our families

1619
01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:02,599
Speaker 21: in this next generation.

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01:20:02,880 --> 01:20:05,240
Speaker 7: That's why voting is important. It's gonna happen with or

1621
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:05,640
Speaker 7: without you.

1622
01:20:05,880 --> 01:20:07,360
Speaker 21: So you can choose not to vote, but that's a

1623
01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 21: vote for somebody else, and it's a vote against your children.

1624
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:12,400
Speaker 21: And our children should not be for sale. That's not

1625
01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 21: what we should be doing. In the state of Florida,

1626
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:16,880
Speaker 21: we've had double trouble, Desanta's and Trump in the same

1627
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:20,200
Speaker 21: zip code. That's crazy, you know, And so listen, we're

1628
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:22,479
Speaker 21: not crazy. We got to understand where this has make

1629
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:25,840
Speaker 21: America normal again. Not because I want normal, because I

1630
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:27,320
Speaker 21: want the abnormal to be gone.

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01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 7: I want stuff that Donald Trump.

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01:20:29,400 --> 01:20:33,400
Speaker 21: Is saying about my people, about people like me, about Haitians,

1633
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:37,320
Speaker 21: about you know, villainizing our teachers, villainizing our children.

1634
01:20:37,520 --> 01:20:39,960
Speaker 7: This man doesn't know anything from anything, and the.

1635
01:20:40,080 --> 01:20:41,880
Speaker 21: Only way we can get rid of that kind of

1636
01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:45,040
Speaker 21: hate and disdain and divisiveness is to vote.

1637
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:47,040
Speaker 7: It's the only game in town. You can like it

1638
01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 7: or not like it, but you better get at it.

1639
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:52,160
Speaker 24: Yeah, and that's why Florida isn't play because what DeSantis

1640
01:20:52,200 --> 01:20:54,920
Speaker 24: has done to this state for six years, that the

1641
01:20:55,479 --> 01:20:57,880
Speaker 24: banning of books. I saw an article today that says

1642
01:20:57,920 --> 01:20:59,840
Speaker 24: we're still the number one state in the nation for

1643
01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:03,240
Speaker 24: banning books, you know, everything from black history to slaves,

1644
01:21:03,280 --> 01:21:05,639
Speaker 24: that there was a benefit to slavery, the six week

1645
01:21:05,720 --> 01:21:08,800
Speaker 24: abortion ban. That's not who we are as Floridians. And

1646
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:11,840
Speaker 24: he's taken us into such a dangerous direction. That's why

1647
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:14,040
Speaker 24: I think you're seeing the backlash here in our state.

1648
01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:16,560
Speaker 24: And no offense to the men on this stage, but

1649
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:17,800
Speaker 24: the women are going to save the day in this

1650
01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:18,559
Speaker 24: election cycle.

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01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:19,280
Speaker 6: I always do.

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01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:23,720
Speaker 1: By the men. But I will say this question for

1653
01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:26,280
Speaker 1: national audience. There are a lot of folks who have

1654
01:21:26,439 --> 01:21:30,120
Speaker 1: written Florida off by and large, that we constantly is

1655
01:21:30,160 --> 01:21:32,519
Speaker 1: not a purple state Nymore. People keep saying a red state.

1656
01:21:32,960 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 1: A lot of folks neglect that a third of the

1657
01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:39,360
Speaker 1: electorate maybe second and running now are independent registrants in

1658
01:21:39,439 --> 01:21:42,439
Speaker 1: this Florida. If you had to make the audience more broadly,

1659
01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:44,840
Speaker 1: make the case more broadly, and I'd like to hear

1660
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:48,599
Speaker 1: from both of you on it, both Floridians. Is how

1661
01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:51,400
Speaker 1: do you convince folks that Florida is a state that

1662
01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:55,840
Speaker 1: politically can still vote for a Democrat at a statewide level.

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01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:59,120
Speaker 24: Easy, look at our election in twenty eighteen, Andrew, you

1664
01:21:59,360 --> 01:22:02,599
Speaker 24: lost by thirty four thousand votes. I bet you probably

1665
01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:06,840
Speaker 24: know that number by yeah, And I won and I

1666
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:09,759
Speaker 24: won by five thousand, six hundred and seventy three votes.

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01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:11,760
Speaker 6: That was just six years ago.

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01:22:12,240 --> 01:22:15,519
Speaker 24: And then in twenty twenty and we saw Desmond's You know,

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01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 24: in twenty eighteen, we saw a restoration of civil rights

1670
01:22:18,560 --> 01:22:22,559
Speaker 24: passing by over seventy percent, legalization of medical marijuana by

1671
01:22:22,640 --> 01:22:26,200
Speaker 24: seventy two percent. These initiatives that you're talking about earlier

1672
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:30,560
Speaker 24: are are progressive, and the people of this state consistently

1673
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:33,960
Speaker 24: are voting way over the sixty percent threshold. And the

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01:22:34,040 --> 01:22:35,720
Speaker 24: fact of the matter is a third of our state

1675
01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 24: is independent at this point. And so when you take

1676
01:22:38,400 --> 01:22:41,000
Speaker 24: the independence who have been breaking for Democrats since the

1677
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:43,479
Speaker 24: beginning of twenty twenty three in the numbers of sixty

1678
01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:46,120
Speaker 24: five to seventy percent, that's how We were able to

1679
01:22:46,200 --> 01:22:49,360
Speaker 24: flip the du Bal mayor's race last year, Donna Digan

1680
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:51,519
Speaker 24: the first female ever elected as mayor.

1681
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:53,400
Speaker 14: She won with independence.

1682
01:22:53,479 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 6: We flipped a House seat this year.

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01:22:55,439 --> 01:22:57,720
Speaker 24: The last time that House seat was blue was when

1684
01:22:58,200 --> 01:23:01,000
Speaker 24: Senator Nelson was a House member, and we flipped it

1685
01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:04,360
Speaker 24: with seventy percent independence. So right now we've got a

1686
01:23:04,439 --> 01:23:09,160
Speaker 24: demographic that Democrats are voting, Independents are voting and breaking

1687
01:23:09,240 --> 01:23:12,920
Speaker 24: for Democrats, and I am not convinced that more than

1688
01:23:13,040 --> 01:23:16,839
Speaker 24: ten percent of the Republican voters are voting for Kamala

1689
01:23:16,880 --> 01:23:20,160
Speaker 24: Harrison Democrats because they're tired of this nonsense and they

1690
01:23:20,240 --> 01:23:21,599
Speaker 24: want normality again.

1691
01:23:21,960 --> 01:23:25,360
Speaker 6: Well, and speaking of normal, we got to get back

1692
01:23:25,439 --> 01:23:28,920
Speaker 6: on schedule. So we so appreciate you with us today.

1693
01:23:29,040 --> 01:23:30,400
Speaker 6: We're so so great voting.

1694
01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:31,960
Speaker 5: Thank you all the work that you're doing is help

1695
01:23:32,040 --> 01:23:34,479
Speaker 5: save democracy. So thank you so much, Nikki Freed and

1696
01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:35,559
Speaker 5: better ingram.

1697
01:23:38,520 --> 01:23:39,759
Speaker 7: Y'all keep doing for the black community.

1698
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:45,960
Speaker 6: Vote November fifth, because we have.

1699
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:58,799
Speaker 2: Awesome welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.

1700
01:24:01,320 --> 01:24:03,720
Speaker 3: This breeze is so appreciated. As we bring up the

1701
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:04,639
Speaker 3: next guest.

1702
01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:07,719
Speaker 6: Praise the Lord. Yes, okay, So now what we're gonna

1703
01:24:07,720 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 6: do is. We're gonna bring up a very very special guest.

1704
01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:14,280
Speaker 6: She is our defacto producer of today's show. She is

1705
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:17,280
Speaker 6: Andrews not just better, but the best half.

1706
01:24:17,680 --> 01:24:18,040
Speaker 7: She is.

1707
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:22,960
Speaker 3: I guess it is, yes, shaking her head.

1708
01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:29,479
Speaker 6: He's doing. Genesis Robinson is also going to join us

1709
01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:31,000
Speaker 6: on ground.

1710
01:24:32,560 --> 01:24:33,240
Speaker 3: Shaking her head.

1711
01:24:34,760 --> 01:24:37,479
Speaker 6: She's still producing. Come on, Jay, and where is uh?

1712
01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:40,599
Speaker 6: I'm not sure he's.

1713
01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:46,840
Speaker 1: Okay, okay anyway, Southern Girl Desserts, don't worry about it.

1714
01:24:51,280 --> 01:24:57,080
Speaker 8: Are so happy to have you, our de facto producer

1715
01:24:57,920 --> 01:25:00,880
Speaker 8: making it happen. Yeah, she really, We're happy to have you,

1716
01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:04,880
Speaker 8: have you as well, happy to have yell in Tallahassee.

1717
01:25:05,240 --> 01:25:06,200
Speaker 6: Thank you so much.

1718
01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:08,439
Speaker 5: So real quick, Jay, before we get to you, Genesis,

1719
01:25:08,479 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 5: tell us about the Equal Ground Fund and what you're doing.

1720
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:12,920
Speaker 19: Yes, so, thank y'all for having me.

1721
01:25:13,360 --> 01:25:16,639
Speaker 25: Equal Ground As a black led voting rights organization, we're

1722
01:25:16,680 --> 01:25:19,439
Speaker 25: working throughout the entire state of Florida with the goal

1723
01:25:19,479 --> 01:25:22,960
Speaker 25: of educating our community, getting them prepared for elections, and

1724
01:25:23,040 --> 01:25:26,960
Speaker 25: getting them more involved in the civic engagement process. Too often,

1725
01:25:27,920 --> 01:25:30,759
Speaker 25: election after election, we don't see the type of engagement

1726
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:33,400
Speaker 25: in our community, and so we made the commitment to

1727
01:25:33,479 --> 01:25:34,799
Speaker 25: have a year round investment.

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01:25:35,200 --> 01:25:35,320
Speaker 12: Right.

1729
01:25:35,360 --> 01:25:37,639
Speaker 25: We're not just coming into communities right before an election

1730
01:25:37,760 --> 01:25:38,440
Speaker 25: and disappearing.

1731
01:25:38,920 --> 01:25:39,680
Speaker 19: We're staying in.

1732
01:25:39,920 --> 01:25:43,519
Speaker 25: We're mobilizing, We're educating and providing all of the resources

1733
01:25:43,560 --> 01:25:45,559
Speaker 25: for people to get more involved in the political process.

1734
01:25:46,120 --> 01:25:48,880
Speaker 1: I love that Genesis was a young organizer as a

1735
01:25:48,920 --> 01:25:53,840
Speaker 1: student on campuses here. He's given all of his time

1736
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:57,560
Speaker 1: since leaving Catlin to continue organizing around the state. We

1737
01:25:57,680 --> 01:26:00,120
Speaker 1: appreciate it. We're gonna come back to Egle ground. I

1738
01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 1: want to give a quick shout out to my best friend,

1739
01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:08,080
Speaker 1: my wife, my chosen life partner r J who home

1740
01:26:08,280 --> 01:26:10,720
Speaker 1: and for whom I couldn't I couldn't do give it

1741
01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:15,320
Speaker 1: up for Jay, y'all, and then and then she also

1742
01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:17,120
Speaker 1: so the produces on other shows.

1743
01:26:17,200 --> 01:26:18,920
Speaker 7: Y'all, you don't get to hear about it, but.

1744
01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:19,880
Speaker 6: We hear about it.

1745
01:26:21,000 --> 01:26:21,919
Speaker 1: What's on Instagram?

1746
01:26:22,640 --> 01:26:24,080
Speaker 6: Why Why do I know that?

1747
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:26,600
Speaker 4: I don't know because you don't know what's going on.

1748
01:26:28,439 --> 01:26:31,080
Speaker 1: Which most people figure out what they listen to the.

1749
01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:34,320
Speaker 6: Show it's We're at the highest of seven Hill.

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01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:34,960
Speaker 4: That's why I.

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01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:37,640
Speaker 5: Said it, right, I feel like we should hear this

1752
01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:39,960
Speaker 5: love story that began in politics.

1753
01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:42,840
Speaker 1: We have two different versions, and therefore we don't j.

1754
01:26:42,960 --> 01:26:45,599
Speaker 6: You're gonna tell it blaming her time.

1755
01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:47,840
Speaker 5: Let's jay, I want you to tell this story because

1756
01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:50,439
Speaker 5: we want to get the young people motivated, and sometimes

1757
01:26:50,479 --> 01:26:52,680
Speaker 5: the best way to do that is to know that

1758
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 5: they can meet in the city chamber.

1759
01:26:56,479 --> 01:26:58,559
Speaker 1: WHOA, yes, the microphones are defect.

1760
01:26:58,840 --> 01:27:00,880
Speaker 3: Yes, Jesus you're mad that.

1761
01:27:03,080 --> 01:27:05,200
Speaker 26: I am so proud of you and what all young

1762
01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:08,560
Speaker 26: people are doing being active. This young man was a

1763
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:12,439
Speaker 26: very active student leader. We were both in student government

1764
01:27:12,560 --> 01:27:13,160
Speaker 26: the year before.

1765
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:17,080
Speaker 27: He was SGA president, I was SGA vice president, and

1766
01:27:17,320 --> 01:27:22,920
Speaker 27: we didn't get along at all. We thought about everything

1767
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:25,639
Speaker 27: because Andrew was ready to march to the capitol.

1768
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:28,519
Speaker 3: He was ready to protest, and I just had a.

1769
01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:30,479
Speaker 1: More because do we always have to march?

1770
01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:35,200
Speaker 4: Well, no, my boy was what are we asking for?

1771
01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 3: And what is the exit strategy? So need let's to

1772
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:45,840
Speaker 3: say we did not date in college at all. We

1773
01:27:46,040 --> 01:27:51,360
Speaker 3: reconnected years later. It was our student government advisors that

1774
01:27:51,520 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 3: put us together and here we are all these years later.

1775
01:27:56,200 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 26: But I will say one thing he says a lot

1776
01:27:58,640 --> 01:28:01,320
Speaker 26: is life partner, and that is that's true. No matter

1777
01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:03,720
Speaker 26: how we started, where we are now and all the

1778
01:28:03,800 --> 01:28:07,600
Speaker 26: in between. This is my friend, my best friend. I

1779
01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:09,000
Speaker 26: can talk about him, y'all came.

1780
01:28:11,040 --> 01:28:13,120
Speaker 6: But this is home for us.

1781
01:28:13,360 --> 01:28:16,160
Speaker 3: It's where we started, it's where our love started.

1782
01:28:16,280 --> 01:28:17,200
Speaker 13: But like this is.

1783
01:28:17,200 --> 01:28:20,120
Speaker 6: Spiritual, right, and you don't just have to be a rattler.

1784
01:28:20,400 --> 01:28:24,040
Speaker 26: All of these people supporting you, all this show. When

1785
01:28:24,200 --> 01:28:26,640
Speaker 26: we have been through the highs and the lows, it

1786
01:28:26,840 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 26: was our rattler family that was right there.

1787
01:28:29,320 --> 01:28:30,519
Speaker 3: They didn't care what was going on.

1788
01:28:30,680 --> 01:28:32,080
Speaker 6: They said, you are one of us, and.

1789
01:28:32,120 --> 01:28:34,519
Speaker 3: We've got y'all. So I hope that wherever you are,

1790
01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:35,680
Speaker 3: you have that.

1791
01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:38,160
Speaker 26: You have that home, you have that community, you have

1792
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:42,040
Speaker 26: that love, that kinship, because there's nothing like it. So

1793
01:28:42,520 --> 01:28:45,400
Speaker 26: I won't tell the full story because we disagree.

1794
01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:48,520
Speaker 6: I wanted to hear that. I think the whole tremendously.

1795
01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:50,960
Speaker 3: On how the story goes, I'll tell you.

1796
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:53,679
Speaker 18: Listen, this is the quickest part. When I first moved

1797
01:28:53,760 --> 01:28:56,439
Speaker 18: back to Tallahasseee after graduating, I ran.

1798
01:28:56,400 --> 01:28:59,640
Speaker 4: Into Andrew and the mall and he was a city commissioner.

1799
01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:04,720
Speaker 26: So I was proud of him, and he gave me

1800
01:29:04,880 --> 01:29:07,040
Speaker 26: his number. I'm gonna try to find it so I

1801
01:29:07,120 --> 01:29:08,519
Speaker 26: could take a picture to show y'all.

1802
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:10,799
Speaker 3: He wrote it down because.

1803
01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:12,760
Speaker 26: I still had a paper calendar in my purse, and

1804
01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:17,320
Speaker 26: he wrote down three phone numbers on this piece of paper. Now,

1805
01:29:17,360 --> 01:29:19,280
Speaker 26: when I saw the young man in the mall, he

1806
01:29:19,400 --> 01:29:20,280
Speaker 26: looked really nice.

1807
01:29:20,360 --> 01:29:21,439
Speaker 6: He was shopping, but.

1808
01:29:21,560 --> 01:29:23,599
Speaker 4: He had two phones on his hip.

1809
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:27,080
Speaker 26: None of those three numbers was a cell phone number,

1810
01:29:27,200 --> 01:29:29,479
Speaker 26: so I just assumed he didn't want me to call him.

1811
01:29:29,520 --> 01:29:29,840
Speaker 6: For real.

1812
01:29:29,960 --> 01:29:31,519
Speaker 3: He gave me like a word number.

1813
01:29:34,120 --> 01:29:38,080
Speaker 6: And anybody with two cell phones is probably never home.

1814
01:29:38,120 --> 01:29:39,759
Speaker 3: Why are you giving me your home number?

1815
01:29:40,479 --> 01:29:41,920
Speaker 6: You see j What was you doing?

1816
01:29:42,040 --> 01:29:44,360
Speaker 1: You shouting to the genesis.

1817
01:29:49,360 --> 01:29:54,160
Speaker 6: Right here in this love story? Did we connected?

1818
01:29:54,320 --> 01:29:54,920
Speaker 3: It was fine.

1819
01:29:57,439 --> 01:29:59,800
Speaker 6: I never called him because I just assumed I was.

1820
01:29:59,800 --> 01:30:01,439
Speaker 3: Like need meet with calling it.

1821
01:30:01,560 --> 01:30:06,040
Speaker 26: What happened the pond day our student government advisors. I

1822
01:30:06,160 --> 01:30:08,080
Speaker 26: had come back and actually worked on campus.

1823
01:30:08,240 --> 01:30:08,559
Speaker 7: I had a.

1824
01:30:08,600 --> 01:30:13,000
Speaker 26: Graduate student job and I was in charge of the court,

1825
01:30:13,120 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 26: the Royal Court, and I was at a football tailgate

1826
01:30:16,520 --> 01:30:20,000
Speaker 26: and Miss Doing, Miss Lamb, miss Dupon, is no longer

1827
01:30:20,080 --> 01:30:22,360
Speaker 26: with us, but everybody that was in student government in

1828
01:30:22,479 --> 01:30:25,639
Speaker 26: the nineties and two thousands remembers her and Miss Lamb,

1829
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:28,240
Speaker 26: who doesn't work on campus, but it's still here, said

1830
01:30:28,280 --> 01:30:30,400
Speaker 26: they had somebody that wanted me to meet, and I

1831
01:30:30,520 --> 01:30:33,600
Speaker 26: got very excited and we made plans and it was.

1832
01:30:33,680 --> 01:30:36,400
Speaker 3: Him, and I was like, why y'all could just tell

1833
01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:36,960
Speaker 3: it was him.

1834
01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:42,160
Speaker 4: So we went to dinner to Bennigan, which is no longer.

1835
01:30:45,240 --> 01:30:49,080
Speaker 26: The restaurant closed, they had to put us out, and

1836
01:30:49,200 --> 01:30:51,479
Speaker 26: we sat and talked for another two or three hours

1837
01:30:51,560 --> 01:30:54,719
Speaker 26: in the parking lot on Saturday night, and he invited

1838
01:30:54,760 --> 01:30:56,400
Speaker 26: me to go to church with him the West day.

1839
01:30:57,720 --> 01:30:58,720
Speaker 4: I wasn't.

1840
01:31:05,960 --> 01:31:08,439
Speaker 6: One more second before we go to tennis.

1841
01:31:09,560 --> 01:31:15,880
Speaker 5: Sometimes love stories don't always have happy endings, and they should,

1842
01:31:16,560 --> 01:31:20,840
Speaker 5: but sometimes love stories brush you into another part of

1843
01:31:20,920 --> 01:31:21,559
Speaker 5: your destiny.

1844
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:28,360
Speaker 6: We're joined today by Charles Johnson said here for moms,

1845
01:31:29,320 --> 01:31:36,920
Speaker 6: and we're gonna get it right with four moms.

1846
01:31:38,479 --> 01:31:38,839
Speaker 1: Moms.

1847
01:31:40,400 --> 01:31:42,560
Speaker 5: Charles, thank you so much for joining us and for

1848
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:46,880
Speaker 5: the work you're doing. We want to hunt you, but

1849
01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:48,840
Speaker 5: we didn't throw it off and ran off the set.

1850
01:31:48,880 --> 01:31:50,320
Speaker 5: Today we're just gonna be be good and.

1851
01:31:52,320 --> 01:31:52,920
Speaker 7: And that too.

1852
01:31:53,280 --> 01:31:55,479
Speaker 5: I feel like we've been shouting at church, so we

1853
01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:58,200
Speaker 5: really really thank God for your work. I first learned

1854
01:31:58,360 --> 01:32:01,839
Speaker 5: of what you were doing, uh at Elaine Walter Ross's

1855
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:05,120
Speaker 5: Firth Fund event in la so thank you so much.

1856
01:32:05,200 --> 01:32:08,080
Speaker 5: Please tell the audience about for here, for moms and

1857
01:32:08,160 --> 01:32:09,759
Speaker 5: the reason for the work, which is sure.

1858
01:32:09,600 --> 01:32:10,000
Speaker 11: Sure, sure.

1859
01:32:10,040 --> 01:32:12,040
Speaker 21: So first of all, it's an honor to be here, right,

1860
01:32:12,120 --> 01:32:15,479
Speaker 21: And I have to say to my brother Andrews, to RJ. Right,

1861
01:32:15,680 --> 01:32:18,559
Speaker 21: like y'all have to understand, like on behalf of all

1862
01:32:18,680 --> 01:32:21,519
Speaker 21: of us, man, we love you, bro, we really love you.

1863
01:32:22,280 --> 01:32:24,800
Speaker 21: And I want to tell my story, but I have

1864
01:32:24,880 --> 01:32:27,680
Speaker 21: to start and center this and the fact that when

1865
01:32:27,720 --> 01:32:29,800
Speaker 21: I touched down here twenty five years ago in the

1866
01:32:29,880 --> 01:32:33,680
Speaker 21: fall of nineteen ninety nine, my first time voting ever

1867
01:32:33,920 --> 01:32:37,800
Speaker 21: was in ninety nine, right, and I had a front

1868
01:32:37,920 --> 01:32:41,840
Speaker 21: row seats to two things, to a historical steal of

1869
01:32:41,880 --> 01:32:44,040
Speaker 21: an election. But I had a front row seat to

1870
01:32:44,080 --> 01:32:48,400
Speaker 21: Andrew Gilliam's leadership, right because he was our student president

1871
01:32:48,400 --> 01:32:50,280
Speaker 21: and he led us to march up the street to

1872
01:32:50,360 --> 01:32:52,920
Speaker 21: the capitol. He led to sit in right and to

1873
01:32:53,040 --> 01:32:56,559
Speaker 21: watch where you have been, what you have meant to us, brothers,

1874
01:32:56,800 --> 01:32:58,120
Speaker 21: we love you, We love RJ.

1875
01:32:58,280 --> 01:33:00,240
Speaker 7: And there's nothing you can do of it. Did you

1876
01:33:00,320 --> 01:33:01,720
Speaker 7: understand me? We love you?

1877
01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:04,120
Speaker 28: So this is an honor to being here. So with

1878
01:33:04,200 --> 01:33:06,160
Speaker 28: that being said, I apologized, had I had to say

1879
01:33:06,200 --> 01:33:09,720
Speaker 28: that Andrew so and so this story starts, and how

1880
01:33:09,800 --> 01:33:11,599
Speaker 28: I got this work. I was fortunate enough to meet

1881
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:14,040
Speaker 28: a woman that absolutely changed my life. As we talked

1882
01:33:14,040 --> 01:33:16,920
Speaker 28: about my wife, Kira, we're talking about Sunshine per signing.

1883
01:33:16,920 --> 01:33:19,080
Speaker 7: We're talking about Sunshine Per signed by the woman.

1884
01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:22,320
Speaker 28: That raced cars, who had her pilot's license, who spoke

1885
01:33:22,400 --> 01:33:25,240
Speaker 28: five languages, and I always wanted to be a dad,

1886
01:33:25,680 --> 01:33:27,000
Speaker 28: always wanted to be a dad.

1887
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:28,280
Speaker 7: And socome.

1888
01:33:28,320 --> 01:33:30,960
Speaker 28: We welcomed our first son, Charles the fifth, in twenty

1889
01:33:31,120 --> 01:33:33,000
Speaker 28: and fourteen, and we begin to talk about how cool

1890
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:35,280
Speaker 28: we would be to have back to back boys, and

1891
01:33:35,360 --> 01:33:37,280
Speaker 28: so we found out we were welcomed our second sons

1892
01:33:37,920 --> 01:33:39,280
Speaker 28: in twenty and sixteen.

1893
01:33:39,840 --> 01:33:41,919
Speaker 7: We were ecstatic, and so on April.

1894
01:33:41,720 --> 01:33:44,040
Speaker 28: Twelfth of twenty sixteen, we walked in the Cedar Sinai

1895
01:33:44,080 --> 01:33:46,639
Speaker 28: in Los Angeles for we expected to be the happiest

1896
01:33:46,720 --> 01:33:49,200
Speaker 28: day of our lives and walk straight into a nightmare.

1897
01:33:49,680 --> 01:33:51,240
Speaker 28: It's important to stand that Kira was not only in

1898
01:33:51,320 --> 01:33:55,840
Speaker 28: good health, she was an exceptional help and no pre

1899
01:33:55,960 --> 01:33:58,640
Speaker 28: existing conditions, no signs of distress. And we went and

1900
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:01,200
Speaker 28: it was supposed to be a weird seeing scheduled sea section.

1901
01:34:02,360 --> 01:34:06,759
Speaker 28: Our son was born perfectly healthy, ten fingers, ten toes,

1902
01:34:06,960 --> 01:34:07,720
Speaker 28: super handsome, and.

1903
01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:09,800
Speaker 7: You're looking just like me, like, this is it, right,

1904
01:34:10,000 --> 01:34:11,519
Speaker 7: this is it? This is the dream.

1905
01:34:11,880 --> 01:34:14,760
Speaker 28: And they take us back to recovery. And that's when

1906
01:34:15,120 --> 01:34:16,880
Speaker 28: things took a turn for the worst. And as I'm

1907
01:34:16,920 --> 01:34:19,599
Speaker 28: sitting there watching cure rest and watching the baby rest,

1908
01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:23,320
Speaker 28: I see blood and the casseeter bring it to the attention.

1909
01:34:23,439 --> 01:34:26,040
Speaker 28: And the doctors been nurses at CEDARS. They come in,

1910
01:34:26,160 --> 01:34:28,559
Speaker 28: they examine her, they examine her, they take her vitals,

1911
01:34:30,080 --> 01:34:30,920
Speaker 28: they ordered tests.

1912
01:34:31,160 --> 01:34:33,800
Speaker 7: Keep in mind, this is around. We went into the

1913
01:34:33,800 --> 01:34:36,080
Speaker 7: delivery at two and it's about four and.

1914
01:34:36,120 --> 01:34:38,799
Speaker 28: They ordered that CT scan that's supposed to be performed

1915
01:34:38,960 --> 01:34:40,680
Speaker 28: STAT and so STAT what does that mean?

1916
01:34:41,360 --> 01:34:41,760
Speaker 7: Right now?

1917
01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:42,160
Speaker 11: Right?

1918
01:34:43,520 --> 01:34:46,280
Speaker 28: Like, okay, I'm concerned, but my wife is healthy, my

1919
01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:47,880
Speaker 28: baby is healthy, and we're supposed to be a seat

1920
01:34:47,920 --> 01:34:52,320
Speaker 28: of sign. Now five o'clock comes, no CC scam, and

1921
01:34:52,360 --> 01:34:55,160
Speaker 28: I'm asking, hey, y'all, where's the where's the scam that's coming?

1922
01:34:55,240 --> 01:35:00,800
Speaker 7: Sir? Six o'clock, no skin? Hey, what's going on? Ah, sir,

1923
01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:02,479
Speaker 7: it's coming. We'll see seven o'clock.

1924
01:35:02,479 --> 01:35:06,880
Speaker 28: And now by seven o'clock she's shivering uncontrollable, right, And

1925
01:35:06,960 --> 01:35:08,320
Speaker 28: they said, well, maybe we may have to take her

1926
01:35:08,360 --> 01:35:09,000
Speaker 28: back to surgery.

1927
01:35:09,240 --> 01:35:10,920
Speaker 7: I'm like, what about to say it, skin that you

1928
01:35:10,960 --> 01:35:11,519
Speaker 7: said in.

1929
01:35:11,560 --> 01:35:15,679
Speaker 28: This game of dismissal, denial, and deprioritization of my wife's

1930
01:35:16,600 --> 01:35:20,200
Speaker 28: pain and our concerns continues to escalate.

1931
01:35:20,240 --> 01:35:22,000
Speaker 7: Eight o'clock, nine o'clock, and.

1932
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:23,960
Speaker 28: Around nine o'clock the nurse came in the only thing

1933
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:25,640
Speaker 28: that they had done at this point is get her

1934
01:35:25,680 --> 01:35:28,800
Speaker 28: IV through it. So around nine o'clock, though, nurse comes

1935
01:35:28,840 --> 01:35:31,600
Speaker 28: in to change her IV bags and just out of decoration,

1936
01:35:32,200 --> 01:35:33,479
Speaker 28: I just stopped her.

1937
01:35:33,880 --> 01:35:38,479
Speaker 7: I said, look, my wife isn't doing good. She's pale.

1938
01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:41,200
Speaker 7: They said that they were gonna take her for surgery.

1939
01:35:41,240 --> 01:35:42,880
Speaker 7: Nobody's coming. They said they were gonna take her for

1940
01:35:42,960 --> 01:35:44,840
Speaker 7: a CDC. And that was five hours ago. Can you

1941
01:35:44,920 --> 01:35:46,080
Speaker 7: please just help us?

1942
01:35:47,560 --> 01:35:49,400
Speaker 28: At which point this woman looked me dead in my

1943
01:35:49,520 --> 01:35:52,880
Speaker 28: eyes and lund she said to me, sir, your wife

1944
01:35:53,120 --> 01:35:57,240
Speaker 28: just isn't a priority right now, Your wife just isn't

1945
01:35:57,280 --> 01:35:57,839
Speaker 28: a priority.

1946
01:36:01,439 --> 01:36:05,240
Speaker 7: Nine ten o'clock and for the instant time.

1947
01:36:05,280 --> 01:36:10,160
Speaker 28: It wasn't until midnight, twelve thirty am that they finally

1948
01:36:10,200 --> 01:36:12,120
Speaker 28: made the decision to take my wife back of surgery,

1949
01:36:12,840 --> 01:36:15,280
Speaker 28: after allowing her to bleed and suffer needlesly for more

1950
01:36:15,320 --> 01:36:19,160
Speaker 28: than ten hours, while myself and my family begged and

1951
01:36:19,320 --> 01:36:21,000
Speaker 28: pleaded for them to just.

1952
01:36:21,080 --> 01:36:22,719
Speaker 7: See her validate our concerns.

1953
01:36:23,479 --> 01:36:26,000
Speaker 28: So finally they take her back to surgery, go down

1954
01:36:26,080 --> 01:36:29,280
Speaker 28: to make the walk down this long corridor, and I'm

1955
01:36:29,320 --> 01:36:30,920
Speaker 28: holding her hand and I'm just doing once.

1956
01:36:30,720 --> 01:36:32,160
Speaker 7: Again, the only thing I know to do is a

1957
01:36:32,240 --> 01:36:33,960
Speaker 7: husband and to say they everything will be okay.

1958
01:36:35,200 --> 01:36:36,920
Speaker 28: And the last thing she said to me before those

1959
01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:40,519
Speaker 28: double doors opened up and they closed behind her, and baby,

1960
01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:44,200
Speaker 28: I'm scared. And we're talking about women as fearless. A

1961
01:36:44,240 --> 01:36:47,400
Speaker 28: woman that went skydiving like some of us went for jobs.

1962
01:36:48,680 --> 01:36:50,559
Speaker 28: And when they took her back in their operating room

1963
01:36:50,600 --> 01:36:52,519
Speaker 28: and they opened her up there with three leaders of

1964
01:36:52,560 --> 01:36:55,840
Speaker 28: blood in her abdoinence from where she had been able

1965
01:36:55,880 --> 01:37:00,639
Speaker 28: to bleed and suffer for all those hours. And I'm

1966
01:37:00,680 --> 01:37:04,760
Speaker 28: always transparent about the fact that although this has become

1967
01:37:04,840 --> 01:37:07,200
Speaker 28: my life, when I walked into that hospital that afternom

1968
01:37:07,240 --> 01:37:09,200
Speaker 28: the thought that my wife would not walk out to

1969
01:37:09,280 --> 01:37:12,400
Speaker 28: raise her voice, it never crossed my mind, right, I

1970
01:37:12,439 --> 01:37:13,880
Speaker 28: thought that this is a walk in the park, like

1971
01:37:14,000 --> 01:37:17,360
Speaker 28: we had done everything right. I never missed a prenatal visit.

1972
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:19,680
Speaker 28: I read all his books, I held her hands through

1973
01:37:19,720 --> 01:37:23,720
Speaker 28: la mine right, and it still wasn't enough in today's

1974
01:37:23,760 --> 01:37:26,400
Speaker 28: America to make sure that she walked out to raise

1975
01:37:26,439 --> 01:37:28,920
Speaker 28: her boys. So although there's nothing that I can do

1976
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Speaker 28: to bring fear back, I'm dedicated, and we're dedicated to

1977
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Speaker 28: do with everything we can. The highest honor we can

1978
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Speaker 28: pay her is to do everything we can to make

1979
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Speaker 28: sure we send other mothers home with their precious babies.

1980
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Speaker 8: That's such a heartbreaking story, and let me just say

1981
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Speaker 8: I'm so sorry, and when we offer our condolences for

1982
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Speaker 8: your loss and the strength it must take you every

1983
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Speaker 8: day to carry your wife's memory and create this legacy

1984
01:37:55,720 --> 01:37:57,880
Speaker 8: not only on behalf of her, but the work you're

1985
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Speaker 8: doing will impact thousands, if it's not millions of black

1986
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Speaker 8: women across the country.

1987
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Speaker 3: So I don't even have a question. I just have

1988
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Speaker 3: gratitude for you and to you, so thank you.

1989
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Speaker 1: I've heard your story, Charles. Obviously, I don't know. Today

1990
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Speaker 1: I feel particularly moved as I think about my wife

1991
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Speaker 1: sitting there, and I think about our three children and

1992
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Speaker 1: think about the miscarriages that happened in between them, and

1993
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Speaker 1: I just have nothing but gratitude for as a husband

1994
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Speaker 1: and father, your willingness to stand when I imagine you

1995
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Speaker 1: didn't have the strength to get up and to stand

1996
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Speaker 1: in the gap for so many other families, other husbands

1997
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Speaker 1: and their wives and partners who deserved to walk out

1998
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Speaker 1: of the hospital just as your wife did, and the health.

1999
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Speaker 1: Earlier this week, Charles hosted here on campus of Eternal Health,

2000
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Speaker 1: simposing and through for Kira, for moms. They're being able

2001
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Speaker 1: to get this word out, this message out across the

2002
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Speaker 1: country to not only folks in Washington and here at

2003
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Speaker 1: fam you and and and across the country, but hopefully

2004
01:39:17,760 --> 01:39:22,200
Speaker 1: to medical professionals who too often don't believe women, don't

2005
01:39:22,280 --> 01:39:26,160
Speaker 1: trust black women, don't validate or hear or believe our pain.

2006
01:39:26,880 --> 01:39:29,920
Speaker 1: They sum it up to they just want drugs, and

2007
01:39:30,960 --> 01:39:35,519
Speaker 1: life perishes in the balance of that. And so uh again,

2008
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine the everyday walk, but I thank you

2009
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Speaker 1: for it anyway, thank you, thank you great, thank you

2010
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Speaker 1: for it. And Genesis you've had to see. You've sat

2011
01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:51,400
Speaker 1: through one slight, fabricated story the other heart wrenching one.

2012
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Speaker 1: But I'd love for you to talk a little bit

2013
01:39:53,880 --> 01:39:58,799
Speaker 1: about what youth engagement and engaging youth particularly and advance

2014
01:39:58,880 --> 01:40:01,920
Speaker 1: of this election has felt like has been like and

2015
01:40:02,040 --> 01:40:05,880
Speaker 1: if there's any learning that we can take from your

2016
01:40:05,960 --> 01:40:09,000
Speaker 1: organizing experience in this election as relates to black men

2017
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Speaker 1: and what the system out to be doing to better hear, validate,

2018
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Speaker 1: and advocate on behalf of us, what would that advice be?

2019
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Speaker 25: You know, I think you know, youth are certainly excited

2020
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Speaker 25: to get engaged to hear me. Yeah, okay, I think

2021
01:40:22,040 --> 01:40:24,479
Speaker 25: youth are certainly excited to get engaged this election. Many

2022
01:40:24,520 --> 01:40:27,479
Speaker 25: of them who are having the first opportunity to pass

2023
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Speaker 25: a vote, they've watched for four years, They've watched for

2024
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Speaker 25: eight years, right, Donald Trump and the type of leadership

2025
01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:38,240
Speaker 25: that he has had. They've seen here in the state

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Speaker 25: of Florida that they have books that are being banned,

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Speaker 25: a curriculum that is being whitewashed and really stripped of

2028
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Speaker 25: truth and validity.

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Speaker 19: Right, They're seeing where they're prevented.

2030
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Speaker 25: From calling their peers by pronouns of their chosen right,

2031
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Speaker 25: and so they have an opportunity to do something about it.

2032
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Speaker 19: And so we're excited about that.

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Speaker 25: We know that this is sort of the first test

2034
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Speaker 25: of what their engagement and participation will look like not

2035
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Speaker 25: only on the national level, but here in the state

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Speaker 25: of Florida. You talk about Black Men as an organization

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Speaker 25: that organizes the black community in the state of Florida.

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Speaker 19: We know that the black community has a lot to say.

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Speaker 25: We're a little concerned right now about the black turnout

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Speaker 25: here in the state of Florida, and so that's why

2041
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Speaker 25: our organization is committed from now until Tuesday to continue

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Speaker 25: the work of getting people out to vote, providing the

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Speaker 25: resources necessary for them to make educated, informed decisions, because

2044
01:41:33,400 --> 01:41:37,000
Speaker 25: we know that the voter suppression laws.

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Speaker 19: That have been passed here in Florida are having an impact.

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Speaker 25: In twenty twenty three, they removed four point two million

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Speaker 25: Floridians from the vote by mail roles. Why did they

2048
01:41:47,680 --> 01:41:50,799
Speaker 25: do that because they knew in twenty twenty our community

2049
01:41:50,880 --> 01:41:53,400
Speaker 25: led the way and voting by mail and parenting, and

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Speaker 25: they wanted to prevent us from being able to participate

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Speaker 25: in that way.

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Speaker 19: And so you know, we're hopeful, we know that, you know,

2053
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Speaker 19: Thomas winding up. We encourage everyone who's out there to

2054
01:42:05,360 --> 01:42:06,360
Speaker 19: make a plan to vote.

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Speaker 25: If you have not voted yet, make sure you're vote

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Speaker 25: by mail ballots received by seven pm on election day.

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Speaker 25: It's not enough to have it dropped in the mail

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Speaker 25: by that time, it must be received by your supervisor.

2059
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Speaker 25: And so make a plan to vote and make sure

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Speaker 25: you participated in.

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Speaker 19: This upcoming election.

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Speaker 1: I love it, and angela activity for your awareness. The

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Speaker 1: greatness about Equal Ground is that it's a group that

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01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:34,160
Speaker 1: doesn't work just in an election cycle. It's one of

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Speaker 1: the few groups that you'll find year in year out,

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Speaker 1: inside of gubernatorial or presidential or outside of those races,

2067
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Speaker 1: organizing and meeting people at their need. So, Genesis, we

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Speaker 1: thank you for it.

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Speaker 6: Yes to that point.

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Speaker 5: To Charles and Jay, I know you all have both

2071
01:42:50,520 --> 01:42:54,639
Speaker 5: been personally impacted by what happens with black mothers.

2072
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Speaker 6: I'm curious to know, as so much is on.

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Speaker 5: The balloting our very bodies, what do you encourage people

2074
01:43:03,800 --> 01:43:06,839
Speaker 5: to do and how do they stay engaged around issues

2075
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Speaker 5: like this beyond election day?

2076
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Speaker 28: Yeah, so, I think you know, when we think about

2077
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Speaker 28: reproductive justice, when we think about maternal health, particularly black

2078
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Speaker 28: maternal health, and it's important to speak to this and

2079
01:43:18,200 --> 01:43:21,800
Speaker 28: black maternal health. I know that stories like mine, when

2080
01:43:21,800 --> 01:43:24,719
Speaker 28: we look at the statistics, their heart brainsfuls.

2081
01:43:24,760 --> 01:43:27,040
Speaker 7: But here's the realt of this situation. We talk about data.

2082
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Speaker 28: The CDC is determined that eighty four percent of the

2083
01:43:30,200 --> 01:43:33,200
Speaker 28: maternal deaths in this country are classified as preventable, right,

2084
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Speaker 28: eighty four percent. That means those of mothers that should

2085
01:43:36,000 --> 01:43:38,439
Speaker 28: be at the first day of kindergarten, that should be

2086
01:43:38,640 --> 01:43:41,240
Speaker 28: dancing at weddings, they should be streaming at soccer games

2087
01:43:41,280 --> 01:43:43,160
Speaker 28: on Saturday mornings at the top of their lungs, and

2088
01:43:43,200 --> 01:43:45,559
Speaker 28: they're being taken for us. But that eighty four percent

2089
01:43:45,720 --> 01:43:48,559
Speaker 28: is where the opportunity lies, right, And so we've set

2090
01:43:48,600 --> 01:43:50,240
Speaker 28: a goal, as you heard me share in Los Angeles,

2091
01:43:50,560 --> 01:43:53,120
Speaker 28: that the United States needs to have a goal of

2092
01:43:53,400 --> 01:43:57,479
Speaker 28: zero preventable deaths from pregnancy and pregnancy related complications by.

2093
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Speaker 7: The year twenty thirty.

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Speaker 28: Yeah, and how do we do that Fundamentally, we talk

2095
01:44:01,479 --> 01:44:04,840
Speaker 28: about a climate right now, As you well know that

2096
01:44:04,920 --> 01:44:09,920
Speaker 28: it's so politically divisive, this issue around maternal wellness and

2097
01:44:10,040 --> 01:44:14,280
Speaker 28: mothers being having the human right, not the women's health right,

2098
01:44:14,560 --> 01:44:17,840
Speaker 28: not the black the human right to get birth to

2099
01:44:17,920 --> 01:44:20,080
Speaker 28: a healthy child and live to raise that child is

2100
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Speaker 28: uniquely bipartisan right, whether your approach and suppose this is

2101
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Speaker 28: something we can reigar on So regardless of how you affiliate,

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Speaker 28: which your zip code is, who you love, how you

2103
01:44:31,680 --> 01:44:35,439
Speaker 28: identify politically, make sure that your candidate has a clear,

2104
01:44:35,520 --> 01:44:38,200
Speaker 28: concise plan to make our country a better safe of

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Speaker 28: place for mothers and babies.

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Speaker 11: Right.

2107
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Speaker 28: But at the same time, while policy is important, we

2108
01:44:42,400 --> 01:44:46,360
Speaker 28: are done asking other people's permission to save our own lives.

2109
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Speaker 28: So it's important that we as a community get back

2110
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Speaker 28: to what we do well, which is community, making sure

2111
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Speaker 28: that we're informed and empowered, knowing what questions to ask,

2112
01:44:54,640 --> 01:44:58,120
Speaker 28: knowing making sure that we are elevating and sharing information

2113
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Speaker 28: about the providers that are doing it right, that are

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Speaker 28: approaching it with cultural sensitivity, that are approaching that are

2115
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Speaker 28: leading with compassion, supporting organizations like the birth Guard.

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Speaker 7: And supporting the doers.

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Speaker 28: The re out of this situation is there's a lot

2118
01:45:11,560 --> 01:45:15,120
Speaker 28: of people that like to stand around and admire the problem. No,

2119
01:45:15,560 --> 01:45:17,280
Speaker 28: and when we talk about policy too, And I could

2120
01:45:17,280 --> 01:45:18,559
Speaker 28: go on all day, but one of the things I'll say,

2121
01:45:18,560 --> 01:45:19,760
Speaker 28: we talk about policy.

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01:45:19,520 --> 01:45:23,360
Speaker 7: We're making sure that the dollars. This year we passed.

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Speaker 28: And a budget appropriation of one hundred million dollars specifically

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01:45:28,640 --> 01:45:33,320
Speaker 28: to fund community based black women led organizations It's an

2125
01:45:33,360 --> 01:45:36,519
Speaker 28: important distinction, right, So these funds are not just going

2126
01:45:36,600 --> 01:45:39,680
Speaker 28: to the legacy organizations that are making the sisters in

2127
01:45:39,720 --> 01:45:42,840
Speaker 28: the community sing for their sufferers, right and tap dance

2128
01:45:42,920 --> 01:45:44,599
Speaker 28: to get the funding. So we're making sure that funding

2129
01:45:44,680 --> 01:45:46,200
Speaker 28: is going to the people that need it, that have

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01:45:46,360 --> 01:45:48,640
Speaker 28: boots on the ground and are having their hands on

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Speaker 28: the bellies. But the great news is that we can

2132
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Speaker 28: fix this, and so making sure that you're holding people accountables,

2133
01:45:55,080 --> 01:45:57,479
Speaker 28: choosing the right provider, and making sure that the people

2134
01:45:57,520 --> 01:46:00,760
Speaker 28: that you are generously giving your votes to have a

2135
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Speaker 28: plan to make sure that that's product.

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Speaker 26: I think it's personal. It goes from personal to policy.

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Speaker 26: Advocate for yourself. Yes, black women, black men, we gotta

2138
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Speaker 26: go to the doctor at least once a year, right.

2139
01:46:15,720 --> 01:46:17,679
Speaker 3: We got to get our mammograms, We got to get our.

2140
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Speaker 6: Paths, nears.

2141
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Speaker 3: We have to take control of our health, take back

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Speaker 3: our power for our bodies.

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Speaker 26: And then we have to understand the power of our vote.

2144
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Speaker 26: Because there are people out here politicizing IVF. I wouldn't

2145
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Speaker 26: have my children if it weren't by IVF. There are

2146
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Speaker 26: people politicizing what we do with our bodies and the

2147
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Speaker 26: decisions we have to make so I just asked everybody,

2148
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Speaker 26: you don't have to be into politics, but politics is personal.

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Speaker 3: It's very important, and that is how people decide the policy.

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Speaker 26: That affects all of our lives. So I just asked

2151
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Speaker 26: that people take back that power. Like Charles said, there

2152
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Speaker 26: are a lot of policies at place, so support the

2153
01:46:56,479 --> 01:46:58,960
Speaker 26: people that support the power things that support us.

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Speaker 25: Yeah, and you know, that's one of the things that

2155
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Speaker 25: I think we're seeing here in the state of Florida's

2156
01:47:03,640 --> 01:47:07,800
Speaker 25: people to start to recognize the electoral power associated with

2157
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Speaker 25: the issues that they care about. Andrew, I often talk

2158
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Speaker 25: about that your election was perhaps the most consequential in

2159
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Speaker 25: the history of our state.

2160
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Speaker 11: Right. We went on to have.

2161
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Speaker 19: A Supreme Court that allowed unconstitutional.

2162
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Speaker 25: Maps to move forward and jimp Jerrymander. We have a

2163
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Speaker 25: state Board of Education that has allowed there to be

2164
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Speaker 25: to be taught that there's educational and benefit to slavery, right.

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Speaker 25: And so I think when people look around and are

2166
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Speaker 25: able to tie their electoral power to the issues that

2167
01:47:40,280 --> 01:47:42,160
Speaker 25: matter to them, that we can use that as a

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Speaker 25: motivator to get them to vote.

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Speaker 19: It's not just about the presidential race, right, It's about voting.

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Speaker 25: Up and down the ballot at all levels of government

2171
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Speaker 25: to ensure that we're getting the results that we need

2172
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Speaker 25: for documentedy.

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Speaker 6: It's so grateful for it is.

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Speaker 12: All your.

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Speaker 1: Thank right back. I shout out to my co hosts.

2176
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Speaker 1: I should keep up, I should keep us here for

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Speaker 1: thirty more minutes. Just the torture them. You got one

2178
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Speaker 1: over from Seattle the other way from the northeast. They

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Speaker 1: about to die of here.

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Speaker 3: Me too, though, shout out you did, good seed. I

2181
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Speaker 3: was real worried about you, so you did good.

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Speaker 1: Y'all get up for this final panels. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: their growth, their energy, and her female of applause.

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Speaker 20: To you all.

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Speaker 6: You guys can ask no questions.

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Speaker 5: Y'all probably Tom raise the Lord. We'll come down and

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Speaker 5: answer Mama's stage.

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Speaker 1: Well, I want to say to our viewing audience, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for joining us for the fiftieth episode

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Speaker 1: of Data Lampard. Welcome home, forty flight.

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Speaker 13: States on Tuesdays.

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Speaker 29: Thank you for joining the Natives attention of with the

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Speaker 29: Thank you, sincerely for the patients reason for your choice

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